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  the Bible, to relieve him of his "sin."  His defensive use of religiousity to escape personal responsibility for his offense cycle (he groomed his victim in the classic ways of a perpetrator, and insisted on her secrecy between them and God) and (mis)used his position as a senior member of the church to intimidate her.  It reminded me so much of what I had heard over and over from priests and religious credibly accused of sexual abuse of a minor that it made me angry at first.  It quickly subsided when I started to develop a treatment plan with this client: use of religion is completely fine, but never to be confused with the need to do serious work on personal development.  Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God what is God's.  This client was sent to prison after almost a year in the program for offending against the 11 year old daughter of his girlfriend.