You have been “lumped” in with the correct group. This assignment was not being used as a tool for conversion. You had the same knee jerk reaction as the rest. The woman that used it is an Evangelical Christian, same as the woman that complained.
It included an authority figure requiring the student to write out the profession of faith not likely the student’s own. That is, whether witting, or unwitting, a conversion tool.
I have a degree in psychology, and this sort of practice was a standard feature in experiments trying to discern how folks came to internalize things.