That's a fair perspective...here's someone (Reza Azlan) who's talked about Religion as Language for

several years...the video is more about Christianity vs Islam, but the attached article speaks to the language analogy that Pope Francis mentioned.

Link: https://phillipian.net/2018/10/26/religion-identity-reza-aslan-speaks-asm/#:~:text=Aslan%20continued%2C%20“Religion%20is%20the,and%20really%20all%20languages%20are.