[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

But isn't that also what the Catholic Church is doing? They've constructed the image of a God who critically punishes Homosexuality, and wants to stop abortions and voluntary euthanasia. The last 2 are terrible, terrible things, but in some cases are the best thing to do.

Originally Posted by Leviticus 18:22 (KJV)

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination

Originally Posted by Leviticus 20:13 (KJV)

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Originally Posted by Romans 1:26-27 (KJV)

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Originally Posted by 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (KJV)

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, abusers of themselves with mankind, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers, none of these will inherit the kingdom of God. And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God

Also, the Catholic church was the only church that existed in Europe until Luther, so all Christian denominations stem from that.

Because they all follow the same basic tenets, which you reject.

And I don't see how I'm straying from either of those 2nd commandments. I'm only worshipping the God that is referred to in Christian texts, and I'm not carving images of him.

You are worshiping a god that does not hold to the tenets of Christianity. As such, you are worshiping what may be a beautiful deity, but it isn't a Christian one. That violates the Second Commandment. Idols are not always physical.