I don't see a huge contradiction with "culturally Jewish"... and I guess that's the point I was trying to make. There are a lot of parts of "being Jewish" that have nothing to do with whether or not you believe in a deity, or what kind. My point is that in most religions, the part of the culture that is intwined with the religion is 1) minor and 2) hard to pick apart. In Judaism, it's much easier.

You don't find a whole lot of "agnostic Catholics". They call themselves "recovering Catholics" usually. Judaism is qualitatively different.

The only way that this is relevant is that to me "X is Jewish" is a different statement than "X practices the Jewish faith" (or "X practices Judaism") "X is a Jew" is the former, not the latter.