Sorry for the double post.
I grew up sharing the beliefs of my Fundamentalist Protestant culture, one of which was that the "old law" no longer applied because it had been explicitly abolished in the "new testament"--however, this same abolition was seen to make all rituals, ceremonials, holidays, and laws completely superfluous.
Eventually I converted to Roman Catholicism because of the historical argument, but this created an even bigger problem. I retained my Biblical sentimentalism, but now I found myself having to justify and defend post-Biblical rituals, ceremonials, holidays, and laws while interpreting Paul's strictures only against Biblical (ie, Jewish) rituals, ceremonials, holidays, and laws. Eventually I could no longer go along with this.
If the ceremonials and laws of the Bible have been abolished, then, qal vachomer, so have all post-Biblical laws. If, on the other hand (as liturgical chr*stianity teaches) post-Biblical laws are the means by which "salvation" is "appropriated," then there was never anything wrong with Biblical law in the first place.
This is strictly theological anti-Judasim, not "anti-Semitism" as it is conventionally defined today. I also took a little swipe (reread my post and perhaps you'll see it) at Jews who engage in endless dialogues with the most liberal, anti-Biblical chr*stians they can find and who scream bloody murder at ethnic prejudice but never seem to complain about the abolition of Jewish holidays in favor of pagan ones (or about slams at the "Pharisees," who remain a perfectly legitimate target uncovered by the shield of "political correctness").
Thank you for your interest. I know you are not an anti-Semite.