You might compare your question to the academic study of world religions.

You can be someone who practices Judaism, or you can study the history of the Jewish people, or you can research the evolution of religious rites and rituals in different sects of Judaism through time, or you can read the Song of Songs in a class on global love poetry, or you can study group identity in a diaspora as a sociologist.

Most people who have an interest in a topic don’t stick to one narrow lane, but it’s inevitable that we focus.

Supernatural beliefs are part of the human experience, and the tools we use to conceptualize them are powerful and profound. I am not a Christian, but that has never stood between me and the Sistine Chapel. Like, say, the Waite-Smith tarot, the Sistine Chapel is a powerful, persuasive metaphor for the sticky, beautiful, hard-to-express experiences of being human. For most human beings who have ever lived, the most reasonable assumptions from the available information have been supernatural. That means many of our time-honored tools for talking about experience have a supernatural flavor too. Not only do I think that is okay...I think pretending otherwise is a serious oversimplification of the human experience.