Black Magic

Most of my friends that are Jewish are not particularly religious.

To identify as a Jew is to recognize centuries of injustice, hardship, and pain inflicted on your people, and to allow that to bond you, profoundly bond you - to all those that had come before and to their descendants alive today. A personal choice - off limits to judgement. 

But Judaism is a religion, separate from what it is to be Jewish. And like all Judao-Christian-Islamic religions it is based in centuries old fiction, black magic, self-imposed ignorance, judgementalism, and ultimately conflict - my religion is better than yours - my truths all one need ever know.