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I live in L.A. and I was thinking of Betty Sugiyama this morning. I honestly have no words for what I feel about this heart-breaking loss of life, a sweet, innocent lady gone, killed in front of her sister/life companion. I truly do not believe that “mental illness” makes people kill, but evil does.

I truly do not believe that “mental illness” makes people kill, but evil does. My grandmother had a neighbour who was schizophrenic. When she was on her meds, she was a perfectly nice person, when her husband (a deacon at his local church btw) left her and their kids, she stopped taking her meds and became dangerously unhinged, she tried to poison her own son and tried to stab someone else with a pair of scissors. Evantually, she ended up in sheltered housing and got a job as a cleaner in a hospital were they supervised her meds regime.
Now, if mental illness is the result of 'evil' rather than a genuine neurological impairment, are you suggesting that the medication she was on was some kind of holy miracle cure touched by the hand of God, or are you willing to accept that some people behave dangerously due to an actual medical issue caused by the way their brain is wired, as opposed to demonic possession or whatever it is you apparently believe causes this?