[image: screenshot of my tags, reading #unwarranted drive by potshot at torah both unnecessary and not very funny either. #anyway i like [text cuts off]. /end ID]
@baddywronglegs this doesn't require any torah knowledge at all, only the knowledge that torah and the old testament are more or less the same books.* while christianity has largely set aside the old testament, the implication that either a god or the god's observant followers might care about things like shellfish or mixing fibers (which as you present them are obviously both stupid and arbitrary things to care about) is pretty much always antisemitic. jews still have a relationship to leviticus which is active, current, and living - many jews follow some or all of those laws, and many do not, and many otherwise have complicated relationships to the laws of torah, which are relationships i personally think christians and ex-christians should usually stay out of rather than comment on.**
but in general, any description of the old testament or its god as being stupid, regressive, arbitrary, or vengeful/unforgiving - which i am aware is extremely common in christian contexts - is something that imo is inappropriate regardless, but especially unnecessary in mixed company and/or in front of jews who did not ask.
many, many parts of christianity are radically different interpretations of things which exist in judaism, and many, many parts of christianity are historically or currently antisemitic. i do understand that rejecting christianity is an emotionally fraught and complicated process, but i do personally wish that more ex-christians made the effort to divest themselves of christian supercessionism and other antisemitic tropes baked into christian doctrine!
christians not following old testament law is not, in fact, religiously hypocritical: the whole conceit of christianity is that jesus obviated the necessity of keeping old testament law. this means that e.g. christians claiming that the homophobic bits in lev 18 & 22 should bind the behavior of modern christians is hypocritical - but claiming that christians should care about shellfish or shatnetz isn't; the whole point of christianity is that they don't have to.
however, the continued existence of people (jews) following the "old testament" and not accepting jesus as their savior has been a driving factor in large quantities of historical antisemitism. it is destabilizing for christians, whose religion requires itself to be the ~true completion of jewish doctrine~, to realize that plenty of jews don't see that as true.
i think given your awareness that you do not know much about torah, it probably would have been appropriate for you to try and do some research rather than opening the floor to your apparently largely ex-christian follower base. many of the things people are saying in response to you in your notes are incorrect, or partially correct but misleading.
i also do wish you had approached me privately about this. please note that i did not use the word antisemitic in my tags, just unnecessary (which it was); comments like yours are extremely common - i see them a lot, and it's not going to wreck my whole day or anything, just cause me to leave a slightly annoyed tag before actually engaging with the content of the post (which is what the rest of my cut-off tags consisted of). however, i am currently receiving mildly to moderately antisemitic anons -- which is the only reason i knew something had happened in my notes and worked out you'd rb'd this.