(February 18, 2015 at 3:52 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Technically, for me, the monument shouldn't ever have had Christian symbols on it at all, and I fully agree with Pyrrho that whether this teacher was Christian is irrelevant to whether they were a good teacher and it would have been more appropriate for the monument to reflect that this person was a teacher.
With that being said, I'm torn about modifying the monument.
On the one hand I would say leave it and let it stand as precedent for when the satanist teacher dies and their memorial includes a pentagram.
On the other hand, how likely is that to happen and does that implicitly privilege Christians in the meantime?
The practical outcome of that would be, no satanist teacher would ever get a memorial, no matter how great of a teacher the teacher was. When deciding whether or not there will be a memorial, they are going to take into consideration what will be depicted on the memorial. So allowing the current one to stand is giving a privileged place to Christianity, and will most likely give Christianity a privileged place in perpetuity.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
