Awe directed at the universe as a whole is more accurately classified as the sublime in Kant's sense—a response to magnitude overwhelming rational comprehension—than as religious awe.

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Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
Rational comprehension(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge)): The ability to understand something through reason and logical thinking.
magnitude(Zeno's argument against plurality; a thing lacking magnitude is indistinguishable from nothing): A property encompassing spatial extension, thickness, and bulk, without which a thing would be nothing (i.e., could be added or removed without effect)
the sublime(as Kant's philosophical concept being explained): A feeling you get when you encounter something so vast, powerful, or overwhelming that it's almost too big for your mind to grasp—like standing at the edge of a massive canyon or watching a violent storm. It mixes awe, wonder, and a bit of fear or confusion.

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