I believe in the creator. I don't refer to the creator as God!
There are a thousand versions of the creator and all things are interconnected.
It is like flavoured milk, some people may prefer chocoalate milk, strawberry, vanilla etc. No one milk is better, it is simply a different flavour. If you take the flavour away it is still milk.
Religion is like the flavour and can be like sight without vision. It can blind us from what we innately know to be true!