mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
Not really. What we experience as the universe presents itself as being made of the same kind of stuff as we are, and perceivable using our senses or through the testing of hypotheses. Maybe there’s some other way of interpreting all of that no-one has been able to conceive of yet, maybe it’s all a simulation, or whatever. The point is that the way we think of it is a combination of interactions, as in actor/network theory.
The idea of a god is completely different, it is something we humans made up entirely from whole cloth. There is nothing ‘out there’ we can perceive or test that corresponds to it. It is purely a figment of human imagination.
Comparing the two is like comparing the taste of a cheese sandwich as you eat it and what you imagine the ambrosia of the gods might have tasted like.
There is no universe itself. That is in the end "bad" philosophy.
I can you ask you how you perceive the unverse itself as itself. But you don't, since it is an abstract cogntive idea without any external perception.
Learn when you do philosophy and learn to spot that it is not just religion that has beliefs about the world.