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Oliver Cowdery and Joseph Smith in a Power Struggle
Oliver Cowdery is helping to support Joseph Smith's rewriting of history with the angels appearing in 1829 and his getting a bump in. Do you see a potential quid pro quo then? Yeah. Yes, there is a power struggle of a sort, but Joseph Smith wins. How does he win? By getting Oliver Cowdery excommunicated. Okay. What's but what stops Cowdery from speaking up at that point, right? Like if he's speaking it?Yeah, but it seems from the evidence that CowderY is agreeing to tell the narrative that Joseph Smith wants to tell. Meanwhile, he would have first-hand experience knowing that that's not accurate
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