Reply #2: Just my two cents: What bothers me most is your sister's untreated

[MarkCharles]

illness, which, when combined with a religion, often eventually harms the person with that illness and those close to them more than anyone else.

The holiday times are key aggravating factors for those with mental and emotional illnesses, and we can see that it is, indeed, a cartoon referring to the holiday traditions that has tipped her over the edge here, and unreasonably angered her into acting out angrily and somewhat publicly toward her own family members.

As an outsider, I see how this illness is further confused by the religious references, but the bottom line here is sister's illness. Religious references aside, she needs her medications, even though making public comments on Facebook is insulting, destructive, embarrassing, and bothersome, my thinking is that the illness has more to do with this than the religious aspects of it.

Nonetheless, her religion seems to have a much stronger hold upon her than her familial relationships right now. So, as an atheist, and before things escalate further, I'm almost surprised I'm coming up with this idea, but here it is.

Perhaps working WITH her chosen church's minister to get her back on the medications is an approach worth considering.