Can I still call myself a christian?

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I think the catholic church would accept you no matter what you think. That's because they all think they can change what you think once you're already there. The question is do you still want to? Personally, i think catholicism is the best if you're gonna choose a religion despite your disbelief. They have the highest tolerance for non-believers, or at least that's what their leaders say. You can attend mass and just sit in the corner and do nothing, you can make it a special day in the week to look all cleaned-up and dignified, or just try to look for hot-looking girls there and they wouldn't mind. That's what most do anyway. But you still have to put something in collection basket of course. That's what you pay for being a sinner like everyone else there.

A case can be made for God being the Universe, in that it explains the origin of God as well. That is to say he must have brought himself into being
Anyway, I once held a similar belief, when I rejected the idea of God as a personal being. Then before long I rejected the idea of God entirely. Long story short, my path from childhood went something like this:

Fundamentalism -> Liberal Christianity -> Fundamentalism -> Deism -> Rejection of the resurrection of Jesus -> Rejection of God as a personal being -> Generic Neopaganism (involving God as the forces of nature) -> Agnosticism -> Atheism (and a period of uncertainty) -> Nihilism -> ?

I don't even know what I am now, but I don't think it matters.

There are other things in there that didn't last long enough to mention, or which I don't remember or don't know how to name.

Such a beautiful philosophy. It resonates very closely with my beliefs.

My religious path went something like this (although during that second time with Agnosticism, I probably didn't give religion much thought or think it had any purpose, I figured I was happy so what did I need to follow some rules for?)

Roman Catholicism -> Agnosticism -> Atheism -> Nihilism -> Generic belief in some sort of divine force(s) -> Roman Catholicism -> Agnosticism -> Rejection of the idea of Jesus as the only son of god (thanks Aleister Crowley) -> Rejection of the Bible -> Religious Inhumanism (I thought that fundamentalism made sense, until I realized that both secular humanism and fundamentalism suffered from too much systematizing and pointless rules, and that too many systems were looking to the restore some sort of glorified past rather than the traditional way of revelations of the future ) -> Theistic Satanism -> Polytheistic Satanism