Organized religion or religion in a spiritual sense? I do believe there is some higher power that created matter and the laws of physics. But I don’t believe they care or even know about us.
They could also see your MAC address and lookup which vendor that MAC address matches to.
They could then use the cameras there to see who has a laptop that matches and possibly identify you that way.
I’d say if you are going to do it use a vpn no matter what.
They may still lock you out or block torrent traffic, or possibly block your vpn from working. So make sure the vpn kill switch is on in case it suddenly stops working.
First of all, I can evaluate whether I like the game or not, see if it runs well enough for me. I know Steam has a 2 hour window for a refund, but that it less convenient than testing the. Game in other ways.