"religious vs. cultural" is not a Jewish framing, it's a Christian one
For that matter, for all the recent Pastor Angst about people who identify as "spiritual but not religious," arguably in Judaism, what they'd probably frame as "religious but not spiritual" is just as common among Jews:
That is, people who follow Jewish practices that Christians would probably label "religious" (and which most Jews, I think, are more likely to conceptualize as a tradition without concern over whether it's "religious" or "secular") while not believing in God or...
...not believing that there's a divine/sacred reason for the tradition.
There are a LOT of Jewish atheists/agnostics/apatheists out there who still celebrate Pesach.

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