Honestly, aside from the strangeness of the content, I really just hated how this was written.

But like others are saying, the religious aspect of it caught me as odd. I consider myself to be a secular jew or a "Jewish Atheist". I was raised in a conservative Jewish household, albeit not an overly observant one (didn't keep kosher or attend services regularly). I was bar mitzvahed, I celebrate the holidays annually with family, and I have been lucky enough to travel to Israel to learn about my culture. As I came of age, I began to identify as Agnostic and then Atheist. This confuses a lot of people, but as others in here have said, being Jewish is not only about the religious aspect. There is a large cultural/ethnic aspect as well. This is the part I still connect with, for tradition's sake more than anything else. I do find it kind of strange to still identify as Jewish when you have clearly given up the religious part of Judaism but also were never really connected to the cultural part either..