If you mean believing in some kind of 'judgmental Jesus' is a personal hobbyhorse I'd say yes. From thence he [Christ] shall come to judge the living and the dead is part of the apostle's and Nicene creeds, common to protestant and Catholic, orthodox, free churches and pentecostals, although the latter don't usually recite if very often like the older liturgical churches. Shouldn't be such a strange idea.
As for your other sentence above about inventing as deity in your own image, why would anyone invent a deity to whom they will have to give an account, even of every careless word they utter? Think of the implications of that for social media!
The usual response is religion is all about men wanting exercise control, but Jesus expressly forbade this, and the apostle Peter as well, elsewhere it says those who do so will have to give an account.
I think you should either accept all of it (if you are convinced it is true) including the bits you don't like, understand or would prefer not to be true, or reject all of it. Selecting the bits you like won't do, but it is very common these days.
