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There's an enormous variety of non-theistical viewpoints, some of which - many of which - would seem to deviate markedly from 'our' vision of reality. So while I'm not sure that we can 'make up anything we want', we can certainly note the existence of a large number of different belief systems which do not place a creator god at their centre.
Moreover, a person's 'vision of reality' is itself contingent on her belief system, as much as the other way round. If I believe in the existence of a creator demiurge who, having set the world up and set it running, then went off to somewhere else to do something else - and this is a recurrent kind of belief - then reality is rather different than if I subscribe to an agentless Big Bang. The same could be said for ethics.
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