Edited sentence: Calculated and systematic abuse, emotional, physical, or sexual, is sometimes perpetrated by clergy to deliberately create distress usually manifested in victims as a false guilt complex.Intentional abuse which is designed to allow the abuser to later act as 'rescuer' can be compared to extortion or protection rackets.Religious abuse, however is by no means limited to Christianity alone.The most widely publicized cases of this kind of iatrogenic abuse are the Catholic priest abuse scandals.The need to achieve power and control over others can also compell corrupt religious leaders to create iatrogenic conditions in their followers.The victims are then exploited further by the corrupt clergy which proffers the 'cure' for the victims' suffering:  religious salvation