What would your understanding of religion or faith be if you had been blind and deaf since birth. Your mind wouldn't be polluted and limited by thought that must be formed using words, your thoughts would be formed using emotion, recollection, touch, smell: pure and free from the coruption of words, the word of other men, the words of women, the lies of sight, written language. That's god, a purity of thought, I can never know.
I get what you're saying, but I can't give credit to a word so soiled by the mouth of man, so I simply refuse to lable it, and when those moments happen I leave "God" out of it.