...take your pick. Feel free to add more to the list as necessary.
So we've got friend, mentor and Pastor. One we're fairly sure about, one is a fact, and one depends on a viewpoint ('mentor'? did Obama ever show any signs of wishing to enter whatever you call the Protestant 'priesthood'?).
But it was, without question, a pastoral relationship, was it not? The primary links between the two men being church attendance, marriage ceremonies, baptisms and such. So when mtnbkr tries to shift away from this being a religious relationship, that would be incorrect, would it not?
, I for one am fine with your self inflicted ignorance of national issues.
National issues? Is Jeremiah Wright running for President?