Linda Mittermaier

@DefiyantlyFree Her ignorance about the nature of Christianity is something to behold.

This is what happens when you do not have a proper educational system in America. The result is people like her. Christianity is not a “white-supremacist colonizer religion.” It originated in the first-century Levant among Jews, not Europeans. Jesus was a Galilean Jew, and the faith spread across the Mediterranean, North Africa, Asia, and beyond. Ethiopia became one of the earliest Christian kingdoms and ancient Christian communities existed in Egypt, Syria, Armenia, Persia, and India. Today Christianity is the most geographically widespread major religion on earth. According to Pew Research’s 2020 data, published in 2025, approximately 31% of the world’s Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa, 24% live in Latin America and the Caribbean, and only 22% live in Europe. Colonialism, conquest, slavery, are not Christian phenomena, nor do they define Christianity. Nearly every major civilization has conquered territory, imposed political authority, practiced slavery, and developed social hierarchies. Islamic expansion beginning in the seventh century conquered vast Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, and other territories across the Levant, North Africa, Persia, Iberia, Anatolia, and the Balkans through military force. The caliphates and the Ottoman Empire exercised imperial rule over non-Muslim populations, imposed special legal and tax obligations, and transformed the religious and demographic character of lands that had previously been overwhelmingly non-Muslim. The trans-Saharan, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean slave trades operated for centuries under Muslim rulers and merchants and enslaved millions of Africans, Europeans, and others. Still legal in some places today. Christian-influenced societies also produced the most powerful organized movements for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery. British evangelicals pushed for the Slave Trade Act of 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. American abolitionism was also shaped by Christians. Christianity does not teach that men are more human, more valuable, or closer to God than women. The New Testament places women at the center of Christ’s ministry and resurrection. Women followed Jesus, supported His ministry, remained near the cross, discovered the empty tomb, and became the first witnesses entrusted with announcing the resurrection. The university system developed in Christian Europe through institutions such as Bologna, Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris. Christian scholars preserved, debated, translated, and expanded knowledge in philosophy, medicine, law, mathematics, theology, and natural science. 65% of Nobel laureates are Christian. The Scientific Revolution also arose in Christian Europe. Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Boyle, Pascal, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, and Mendel. Christian civilization produced universities, hospitals, orphanages, hospices, charitable orders, mass-literacy movements, scientific societies, constitutional government, abolitionist movements, and some of the most innovative societies in human history. Christianity does not oppose progress. It asks the question that every serious person should ask: progress toward what? A society can become more technologically advanced while becoming less humane. Technology can cure disease, or it can industrialize murder. Political movements can call something progress merely because it is new, or fashionable. Christianity insists that real progress must be measured against truth, justice, and the moral character of the ends being pursued. Christianity does not prevent equality. Every person bears the image of God. The rich cannot buy salvation, the powerful cannot escape judgment, and the weak do not lose their dignity because they lack social usefulness. Christian society is where women enjoy the broadest access to education, voting, property ownership, political office, employment, legal protection, and public life. Whereas in Muslim majority countries they can do none of that.

@ForTheWin No, she shouldn't. Caution is foolish and ineffective.

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@MeghanEMurphy They always think they sound so smart and that it's important for us to hear their views. Actually, we don't care.

Renewing my petition to ban actors from speaking

@TinaSmithMN @AbdulElSayed He's a fighter, alright. Fighting against American ideals and culture.

Abdul is a fighter, and that's why I'm endorsing him to be the next United States Senator for Michigan. @AbdulElSayed

@FreddyLA7 I really enjoyed your observations about America. Come back soon!

So long, America🫡🇺🇸 49 days ago we landed in the USA to follow our country at the World Cup. We had no idea it would turn into the trip of a lifetime. Thank you to everyone who followed along, and to all the people we met who made this journey even more special. We honestly don’t have the words to express how grateful we are for everything you did for us. This trip exceeded every expectation we had. We came here with an open mind, wanting to experience as much of the country as possible. I still remember telling my friends on the flight to Atlanta that I hoped we’d get to meet a few locals on this trip. Now we’re flying home with friends all across the USA. Before we came, we heard so many stereotypes and warnings about America. People told us about safety concerns, that they might check our social media at the border, and all kinds of other things. None of it matched our experience. This was probably the most welcoming country we’ve ever visited. So if you have the chance to travel, do it. The world isn’t nearly as bad as the media often makes it seem. 99% of people are awesome! I heard this quote somewhere during the World Cup, and I think it sums up our experience perfectly: “If you want to hate the world, watch the news. If you want to love it, travel it.” Thank you, America ❤️🇺🇸

@Annejackdanny @allie_uncharted That was definitely a bad move on grandma's part. She should be entitled to take a vacation, but not then!

@lmitterm @allie_uncharted I think it is a very different scenario when the grandma actually insist she is going to do it & asaigns herself as the child care opposed to the baby going into daycare - and then bows out for the very first couple of weeks the mom goes back to work? That's anything but forcing!

My mom: “you don’t need childcare for Liam I’m going to retire so he doesn’t have to go to daycare” Also my mom: *books a cruise and is gone my entire first two weeks back at work*

@stoolpresidente @CaitlinClark22 @WNBA What on earth??

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Congrats to USA Today’s Nancy Armour! She has written the dumbest paragraph not only of my lifetime but in the history of sports. This is an article that says @CaitlinClark22 arguing calls has become dangerous for the @wnba and civil rights. Nancy Armour should be out in a straight jacket and locked up. We can’t have these types of smooth brains roaming freely in society

@thejackhopkins Oh, right. Hunter has always been an oracle, full of wisdom, knowledge, and good sense.

Hunter Biden is almost single handedly kicking the shit out of the GOP. Goddamnit...it's DELICIOUS.

@jpodhoretz Surely it's OK for employees of the same company to have different opinions, even when one of them is the boss. Do you demand total compliance from those under you?

You’re attacking your boss, you dipshit.

@BuckSexton @FinanceLady5 Men, the friend who told you "oh, you'd look great with a beard" is the friend that secretly hates you.

@FinanceLady5 Both of those women would look much better with long hair I don't make the rules

Ladies, never forget: the friend who tells you "oh you'd look great with short hair" is the friend who secretly hates you

@BuckSexton Stop telling women there is only one way to look good.

@mark_slapinski How many other world leaders did he threaten to jail? There are dictators all over the place, and yet I haven't heard him mention any of them. Oh, right, they're not Jews.

Mamdani just BITCH SLAPPED Netanyahu and called for him to be jailed. What a fucking hero.

@agreatdayinnc My husband & I & the other grandma provided 4 days of weekly day care before the grandkids were in school. We volunteered (no pressure) and we all enjoy close relationships with the kids. The kids are often at our house for weekend sleepovers, too. BTW, we're boomers in our 70s.

I have an extremely hot take I don’t think grandparents should be relied on for full time childcare ESPECIALLY free full time childcare.

@KennedyNation That's your argument? What are you, a mean girl in middle school?

Bless your heart, Megan. While you’re at it, go replace the batteries in your vibrator.

@jmasseypoet Nooooooo!

I come to you with a message of hope. There are 64 days until the first day of fall.

@syndrome22q1 @catturd2 @MrBeast @GuntherEagleman @brawadis @ayeejuju @kirawontmiss @Breaking911 @karolineleavitt @MaryLTrump Have a wonderful day!

My name is Justin and I have a Disability today is my Birthday and I am officially 30 Years Old all I want is millions of birthday wishes with the hashtag #HappyBirthdayJustin This is all I want for my birthday it make my day

@booker_squared In what universe did you think this was a good idea? You might hate the guy, but taunting his bereaved sister is wicked. I hope you didn't actually do this and just posted an AI picture to get clicks.

I just dropped this cake off at Lindsey Graham's office. Congratudolences, Darline! Your brother is burning in hell, and now, you're working for the devil!

@DefiantLs It's getting really hard to like this guy.

Rory McIlroy slams ‘performative’ Bryson DeChambeau antics after penalty, "I won't pretend to be up here and defend Bryson. I'm not particularly fond of him. I think a lot of it's performative. I think a lot of it's for attention."

@JordanWood Ashley is a man, but a man for whom I have sympathy. I'm sorry he is not happy with the way he was born, but he is not a woman. Also, he does not have the qualifications for being a senator.

My husband and I met Ashley Webb before the debate. She was kind, warm, and thrilled to make her case to Maine. The last 24 hours of Republicans bullying her has been disgraceful and cruel. No one should be torn down for having the courage to run. We are better than this.