Religion is the self-transcendence of life in the dimension of spirit.
Judaism is not a religion, it is not a legal system, it is not an ethnicity, it is not a liturgy, it is not even a philosophy. It is an array of attitudes, catastrophic ones.
What good comes from paying attention to those attitudes? It is a paying, not a creating, a waste of time, energy and money, not a synergy of thought, craftsmanship, construction, relish and self-satisfaction.
AMDG