would not allow them to

Going to go out on a limb here and say that you aren't expecting me to make any religious points based on something said by Ferris Bueller's teacher. You'd be wrong. Making the forwarding rounds in our circle is a little piece apparently published for CBS. Thought it might be a hoax similar to the fictitious Vonnegut grad speech from a few years ago, but checked its veractity here.

In any case, I'm quoting his relevant text here:

Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

The best line is the point he makes about America not being an "explicitly atheist country". This is due to people's training to look for opposites in order to relate things. And if they hate God, they look the other way and think that killing God is the correct solution. It's high time that the majority really be tyrants over the minority for once and take a stand for their belief.