Wednesday, November 10, 2010

In my Western Civilization class

So, it's midnight and I'm working on finishing up my Western Civ. test and question number 36 reads as follows:

36. The Arian heresy asserted the concept

A. of the supremacy of the bishop of Rome
B. That Christ's nature lay between God and Humanity
C. That God and Christ were co-equals
D that the church was subordinate to the emperor

I find it odd and to a certain extant, offensive that either our professor or publishers of the test would straight out call Arians 'heretics.' Instead of being neutral or as unbiased as one could be, they call Arianism a "heresy" rather than state something such as, "the so called heresy..." or "considered a heresy by orthodox Christianity..."

Nope, they're not having none of that! Take that Arians!

I wonder, though, if the publishers of the test were Arians how this question would have been rephrased. Would they have worded the question differently? Like, "The truthfulness of Arianism teaches..." ?

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