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    I posted this elsewhere, but since I know people are looking in here for more info on Mormonism, I thought I'd put it here as well:

    As most know, Oliver Cowdery was Joe Smith's second cousin. He was made "Second Elder," (second in charge) by Smith in his new church. He was supposedly baptized at the same time as Joe, both baptizing each other at the behest of a supposedly resurrected John the Baptist. He later was supposedly ordained by John, James and Peter, also apparently resurrected beings (or spirits, who knows)!

    Cowdery had a lot invested in Mormonism. Basically a very poor individual, Cowdery saw Mormonism's Book of Mormon as a financial boon! Oliver was a gifted worker with rod (right up Smith's alley) and also came from the Congregational Church pastored by Ethan Smith who wrote "View of the Hebrews." It is not stretching credulity to believe that Oliver most likely had the book in his possession when he came to help Smith.

    Cowdery was rather educated (at least for the time), and had some literary ability. Reworking the Spaulding m****cript, "M****cript Found" would not have been that difficult a ***, especially when Smith was promising him a big financial gain! Rigdon had obtained the m****cript, probably illicitly, and handed it over to the duo, who soon produced "The Book of Mormon," a fantasy story about Hebrews in the New World.

    As we all know, Rigdon and Smith high tailed it out of town after bilking so many Mormons in the Kirtland bank fiasco. Cowdery was left holding the bag. Even moreso, Cowdery and Smith had a serious disagreement about Smith's messing around with a little girl who worked in his house, Fanny Alger. Eventually Cowdery was excommunicated (Smith loved to excommunicate his enemies), and left to become a lawyer. We pick up the story there. His law partner had this to say about Cowdery's ***ociation with Mormonism:

    "**Tell It to the Judge: Cowdery's Confession that the Book of Mormon Was, In Fact, a Fabrication

    As reported by author Charles Shook, after being excommunicated from the Mormon Church, Cowdery moved to Ohio, where he set up a law practice. According to his close friend and law firm colleague, Judge W. Lang, Cowdery admitted that the Book of Mormon was a hoax, manufactured from Solomon Spaulding's unpublished novel, "M****cript Found.” In a letter from Lang to Thomas Gregg, 5 November 1881, Lang wrote: "Dear Sir: . . . Once for all I desire to be strictly understood when I say to you that I cannot violate any confidence of a friend though he be dead. This I will say that Mr. Cowdery never spoke of his connection with the Mormons to anybody except to me. We were intimate friends. The plates were never translated and could not be, were never intended to be. What is claimed to be a translation is the 'M****cript Found' worked over by C[owdery] . He was the best scholar amongst them. Rigdon got the original at the *** printing office in Pittsburgh, as I have stated. I often expressed my objection to the frequent repe***ion of 'And it came to p***' to Mr. Cowdery and said that a true scholar ought to have avoided that, which only provoked a gentle smile from C[owdery]. Without going into detail or disclosing a confided word, I say to you that I do know, as well as can now be known, that C[owdery]. revised the 'M****cript' and Smith and Rigdon approved of it before it became the 'Book of Mormon.' I have no knowledge of what became of the original. Never heard C[owdery] say as to that. . . . (see: http://exmormon.org/d6/drupal/Unholy...dery-Myth-.-.-.)

    Of course, we all know that the Mormons will howl and stamp their feet and say, "Nuhu!" Yet, here we have the statement of a contemporary of Oliver Cowdery who had absolutely no reason to lie, and who seemed to remain quite faithful to his dead friend. The Mormons weren't there, but they'll make up all kinds of stuff to say that Judge Lang was a liar, etc. etc..

    It gets tiresome looking at Mormons posting denials of actual history. On another site we have a Mormon denying the Kirtland bank fraud. Everybody is wrong when it comes to Joe Smith but the Mormons! Today's Mormons deny the testimony of those who lived in Smith's era and saw first hand what a real low life he was. For instance, Cowdery got in trouble for exposing Smith's "skirt chasing.":

    "**Calling Out Skirt-Chasing Smith for Chasing Fannie's Fanny

    What got Cowdery in particularly hot water with Smith was his adamant refusal to cease condemning Smith for Smith's extra-marital affair with a teenage girl named Fannie Alger. Cowdery's unbending insistence that Smith had cheated on his wife Emma infuriated the Mormon Church's “First Elder” and, as historian Fawn Brodie notes, was instrumental in Cowdery's excommunicated: “. . . Some time in 1835 it began to be whispered about that [Smith] had seduced a 17-year-old orphan girl whom Emma had taken into the family. . . .Whether or not Fannie Alger bore Joseph a child, it was clear that the breath of the scandal was hot upon his neck. . . . Oliver Cowdery knew the report of an illicit affair between the girl and the prophet to be true, for they 'were spied upon and found together.' Cowdery made no secret of his indignation and Joseph finally called him in and accused him of perpetuating the scandal. . . . [I]n a letter from Oliver Cowdery to his brother Warren A. Cowdery, dated Far West, Missouri, 21 January 1839] Oliver wrote: 'We had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that what I had said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deserted from the truth in that matter and as I supposed was admitted by himself.' . . . Cowdery himself stoutly refused to exonerate the prophet and eventually was excommunicated from the Church for several misdemeanors, among them 'insinuating that the prophet had been guilty of adultery.'” (Ibid.)

    Did Oliver have a lifelong commitment to Mormonism as the cult today claims? No way:

    -Oliver Cowdery's Alleged Lifelong Commitment to Mormonism: He Quits and Becomes a Methodist

    Shook notes that Cowdery's law partner Lang, in a letter to Gregg, described Cowdery's departure from Mormonism in favor of Methodism: “Now as to whether C[owdery] ever openly denounced Mormonism, let me say this to you; No man ever knew better than he how to keep one's own counsel. He would never allow any man to drag him into a conversation on the subject. Cowdery was a Democrat and a most powerful advocate of the principles of the party on the stump. For this he became the target of the Whig stumpers and press, who denounced him as a Mormon and made free use of C[owdery's] certificate at the end of the Mormon Bible to crush his influence. He suffered great abuse for this while he lived here on that account. In the second year of his residence here he and his family attached themselves to the Methodist Protestant Church, where they held fellowship to the time they left for Elkhorn. . . . .” (Ibid.)


    By the way, the Methodist Protestant Church was a very strict church, and brooked no ***ociation with anything that cast doubt upon the Gospel. I know this because I used to send my kids to a Methodist Protestant camp.

    Cowdery died prematurely at the home of his brother-in-law, David Whitmer. While the Mormons like to claim him as their own (he flirted with Mormonism after Joey's death - after all, his cousin is the one who excommunicated him - the truth is that Cowdery never was reconciled with Young or the Mormon cult):

    “If Cowdery was restored to the LDS Church, why did a Methodist preacher preach at his funeral?” Moreover, as noted in a text of the “Gatewood-Farnsworth Debate” of 1942, even though Cowdery returned in full devotion to Mormonism, “[a]ny statements that Cowdery was said to have made [about his allegedly abiding faith in Mormonism]. . . were published after his death, and were made [not by Cowdery] but by other men. . . . [W]e never have anything in Oliver Cowdery's own words. (Ibid.)

    Mormons, as we all know, are not above twisting facts and lying (for the Lord, of course) to cover up the truth. Oliver Cowdery was a tool in Satan's hand and a pawn of Smith. I'm glad he died before returning to Utah - and perhaps he died in integrity, repenting of his ***ociation with the godless cult of Joseph Smith! God intervened in the end, and took him away from whatever persuasive tactics the Mormons could apply.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Apologette View Post
    Mormons, as we all know, are not above twisting facts and lying (for the Lord, of course) to cover up the truth.
    Oh, that is entertaining and hypocritical of you to say. In another thread you were guilty of this same thing by spreading what could only be lies as NRAJeff pointed out the facts of the Kirtland bank's vault could not possibly have shelves of boxes of rocks covered by coins as the size of the vault was about the size of a treasure chest.

    Oh, and by the way, the LDS call the critics of Mormonism's "lying for the Lord" modus operandi tactics the Decker Method.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snow Patrol View Post
    Oh, that is entertaining and hypocritical of you to say. In another thread you were guilty of this same thing by spreading what could only be lies as NRAJeff pointed out the facts of the Kirtland bank's vault could not possibly have shelves of boxes of rocks covered by coins as the size of the vault was about the size of a treasure chest.

    Oh, and by the way, the LDS call the critics of Mormonism's "lying for the Lord" modus operandi tactics the Decker Method.
    So, in other words, you can't refute a thing. How sad that Mormons aren't able to respond on an intellectual level to anything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Apologette View Post
    So, in other words, you can't refute a thing. How sad that Mormons aren't able to respond on an intellectual level to anything.
    No, I could if I wanted to but history has shown me you'll just ignore the response and change your attack to something else. Jeff did it pretty easily in the other thread, I don't expect it would be too difficult in this case either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snow Patrol View Post
    No, I could if I wanted to but history has shown me you'll just ignore the response and change your attack to something else. Jeff did it pretty easily in the other thread, I don't expect it would be too difficult in this case either.
    I love the word refute, it goes with everything LDSinc, and Joseph Smith jr imagainary mind. Lets try one (refute). Can you refute the skirt chasing habits of your great late Joseph Smith jr. founder and mind-er of the LDSinc.?
    Of course you can't, but it might be worth a try.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RealFakeHair View Post
    I love the word refute, it goes with everything LDSinc, and Joseph Smith jr imagainary mind. Lets try one (refute). Can you refute the skirt chasing habits of your great late Joseph Smith jr. founder and mind-er of the LDSinc.?
    Of course you can't, but it might be worth a try.
    Sure, that's easy. Skirt-"Noun A woman's outer garment fastened around the waist and hanging down around the legs." According to almost everything I've read and researched, skirts were not very common in those days. They almost all wore full length dresses. Joseph couldn't chase what women were not wearing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snow Patrol View Post
    Sure, that's easy. Skirt-"Noun A woman's outer garment fastened around the waist and hanging down around the legs." According to almost everything I've read and researched, skirts were not very common in those days. They almost all wore full length dresses. Joseph couldn't chase what women were not wearing.
    Well at least he had to work for it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snow Patrol View Post
    No, I could if I wanted to but history has shown me you'll just ignore the response and change your attack to something else. Jeff did it pretty easily in the other thread, I don't expect it would be too difficult in this case either.
    Jeff never refutes anything.........he just babbles on about John Calvin. It's actually comical.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Apologette View Post
    Jeff never refutes anything.........he just babbles on about John Calvin. It's actually comical.
    This one is an easy one to refute because the "Spalding Manucript" was found in the early days of the Church and it was found to bear no similarity to the Book of Mormon. Unfortunately for you "M****cript Found" was found years AFTER his statement.
    It was found that they had nothing to do with each other once again, so we now know his statement was a lie.
    There are still some die-hard AntiMormons which now say that the M****cript Found, which was found, lost and then found, was not the lost M****cript Found, but there must be a second M****cript Found which was not the ones found, but is still lost and has yet to be found.

    LOL.... Can you follow that Critic logic???

    Besides, didn't you just post a thread saying that Martin Harris was the main resource for the Book of Mormon, and now you are already contradicting yourself by saying it was either Cowdry or Spaulding who were the main source???

    Which theory is the lie Apologette?

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    Quote Originally Posted by theway View Post
    This one is an easy one to refute because the "Spalding Manucript" was found in the early days of the Church and it was found to bear no similarity to the Book of Mormon. Unfortunately for you "M****cript Found" was found years AFTER his statement.
    It was found that they had nothing to do with each other once again, so we now know his statement was a lie.
    There are still some die-hard AntiMormons which now say that the M****cript Found, which was found, lost and then found, was not the lost M****cript Found, but there must be a second M****cript Found which was not the ones found, but is still lost and has yet to be found.

    LOL.... Can you follow that Critic logic???

    Besides, didn't you just post a thread saying that Martin Harris was the main resource for the Book of Mormon, and now you are already contradicting yourself by saying it was either Cowdry or Spaulding who were the main source???

    Which theory is the lie Apologette?
    Understanding there are few original ideas, we can't dismiss the similarities between the two books.

    LIST OF PARALLELS
    The discoverers of both books claim to have discovered the records by using a lever to remove a rock under which the records were deposited
    Both books depict the goings-on of ancient settlers to the New World
    While making their initial oceanic crossing, the settlers in both books are ****n by a fierce storm which makes them fear capsizement
    The civilized segments of the societies in both books are given strict charges to avoid intermarriage with the less civilized segments
    Both books mention horses
    Both books discuss the division of the people into two major civilizations
    Forts in both books are identical in their manner of consruction
    The narrators of both books suddenly and inexplicably go out of their way to explain that the earth revolves around the sun
    Both books describe a messiah-like figure who appears suddenly, teaches the people, and ushers in an era of great peace
    Both books describe the settlers as having all goods in common at one point
    Both books, respectively, show the two major civilizations entering into a war of mutual destruction
    Both books at one point describe the populace as making use of elephants

    Did Joseph Smith jr. or someone else get their ideas from the Spalding manucript? At this time the answer is not conclusive.
    However the culture ait***ude of race are similary, and give me to believe they come from the same period of time and place 19th centruy up state NY.
    Both works are fiction, and that is a fact!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RealFakeHair View Post
    Understanding there are few original ideas, we can't dismiss the similarities between the two books.

    LIST OF PARALLELS
    The discoverers of both books claim to have discovered the records by using a lever to remove a rock under which the records were deposited
    Both books depict the goings-on of ancient settlers to the New World
    While making their initial oceanic crossing, the settlers in both books are ****n by a fierce storm which makes them fear capsizement
    The civilized segments of the societies in both books are given strict charges to avoid intermarriage with the less civilized segments
    Both books mention horses
    Both books discuss the division of the people into two major civilizations
    Forts in both books are identical in their manner of consruction
    The narrators of both books suddenly and inexplicably go out of their way to explain that the earth revolves around the sun
    Both books describe a messiah-like figure who appears suddenly, teaches the people, and ushers in an era of great peace
    Both books describe the settlers as having all goods in common at one point
    Both books, respectively, show the two major civilizations entering into a war of mutual destruction
    Both books at one point describe the populace as making use of elephants

    Did Joseph Smith jr. or someone else get their ideas from the Spalding manucript? At this time the answer is not conclusive.
    However the culture ait***ude of race are similary, and give me to believe they come from the same period of time and place 19th centruy up state NY.
    Both works are fiction, and that is a fact!
    Now that's funny, a astra in the word ait-i-tude...... way too much sensitive here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RealFakeHair View Post
    Understanding there are few original ideas, we can't dismiss the similarities between the two books.

    LIST OF PARALLELS
    The discoverers of both books claim to have discovered the records by using a lever to remove a rock under which the records were deposited
    Both books depict the goings-on of ancient settlers to the New World
    While making their initial oceanic crossing, the settlers in both books are ****n by a fierce storm which makes them fear capsizement
    The civilized segments of the societies in both books are given strict charges to avoid intermarriage with the less civilized segments
    Both books mention horses
    Both books discuss the division of the people into two major civilizations
    Forts in both books are identical in their manner of consruction
    The narrators of both books suddenly and inexplicably go out of their way to explain that the earth revolves around the sun
    Both books describe a messiah-like figure who appears suddenly, teaches the people, and ushers in an era of great peace
    Both books describe the settlers as having all goods in common at one point
    Both books, respectively, show the two major civilizations entering into a war of mutual destruction
    Both books at one point describe the populace as making use of elephants

    Did Joseph Smith jr. or someone else get their ideas from the Spalding manucript? At this time the answer is not conclusive.
    However the culture ait***ude of race are similary, and give me to believe they come from the same period of time and place 19th centruy up state NY.
    Both works are fiction, and that is a fact!
    That's it... If that is all there is then there is even less similarities than I thought.
    You do realize also that some of what you put are not even in the BOM don't you, like your very first one.
    Other ones are not even true, while others are so tenuous that they are laughable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by theway View Post
    That's it... If that is all there is then there is even less similarities than I thought.
    You do realize also that some of what you put are not even in the BOM don't you, like your very first one.
    Other ones are not even true, while others are so tenuous that they are laughable.
    It made my day to make you laugh.
    OKay, help me out, not even true, tenuous?
    Examples really do help clear things up, don't you think? I will wait until you stop laughing for lets say, one example?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Apologette View Post
    I posted this elsewhere, but since I know people are looking in here for more info on Mormonism, I thought I'd put it here as well:

    As most know, Oliver Cowdery was Joe Smith's second cousin. He was made "Second Elder," (second in charge) by Smith in his new church. He was supposedly baptized at the same time as Joe, both baptizing each other at the behest of a supposedly resurrected John the Baptist. He later was supposedly ordained by John, James and Peter, also apparently resurrected beings (or spirits, who knows)!

    Cowdery had a lot invested in Mormonism. Basically a very poor individual, Cowdery saw Mormonism's Book of Mormon as a financial boon! Oliver was a gifted worker with rod (right up Smith's alley) and also came from the Congregational Church pastored by Ethan Smith who wrote "View of the Hebrews." It is not stretching credulity to believe that Oliver most likely had the book in his possession when he came to help Smith.

    Cowdery was rather educated (at least for the time), and had some literary ability. Reworking the Spaulding m****cript, "M****cript Found" would not have been that difficult a ***, especially when Smith was promising him a big financial gain! Rigdon had obtained the m****cript, probably illicitly, and handed it over to the duo, who soon produced "The Book of Mormon," a fantasy story about Hebrews in the New World.

    As we all know, Rigdon and Smith high tailed it out of town after bilking so many Mormons in the Kirtland bank fiasco. Cowdery was left holding the bag. Even moreso, Cowdery and Smith had a serious disagreement about Smith's messing around with a little girl who worked in his house, Fanny Alger. Eventually Cowdery was excommunicated (Smith loved to excommunicate his enemies), and left to become a lawyer. We pick up the story there. His law partner had this to say about Cowdery's ***ociation with Mormonism:

    "**Tell It to the Judge: Cowdery's Confession that the Book of Mormon Was, In Fact, a Fabrication

    As reported by author Charles Shook, after being excommunicated from the Mormon Church, Cowdery moved to Ohio, where he set up a law practice. According to his close friend and law firm colleague, Judge W. Lang, Cowdery admitted that the Book of Mormon was a hoax, manufactured from Solomon Spaulding's unpublished novel, "M****cript Found.” In a letter from Lang to Thomas Gregg, 5 November 1881, Lang wrote: "Dear Sir: . . . Once for all I desire to be strictly understood when I say to you that I cannot violate any confidence of a friend though he be dead. This I will say that Mr. Cowdery never spoke of his connection with the Mormons to anybody except to me. We were intimate friends. The plates were never translated and could not be, were never intended to be. What is claimed to be a translation is the 'M****cript Found' worked over by C[owdery] . He was the best scholar amongst them. Rigdon got the original at the *** printing office in Pittsburgh, as I have stated. I often expressed my objection to the frequent repe***ion of 'And it came to p***' to Mr. Cowdery and said that a true scholar ought to have avoided that, which only provoked a gentle smile from C[owdery]. Without going into detail or disclosing a confided word, I say to you that I do know, as well as can now be known, that C[owdery]. revised the 'M****cript' and Smith and Rigdon approved of it before it became the 'Book of Mormon.' I have no knowledge of what became of the original. Never heard C[owdery] say as to that. . . . (see: http://exmormon.org/d6/drupal/Unholy...dery-Myth-.-.-.)

    Of course, we all know that the Mormons will howl and stamp their feet and say, "Nuhu!" Yet, here we have the statement of a contemporary of Oliver Cowdery who had absolutely no reason to lie, and who seemed to remain quite faithful to his dead friend. The Mormons weren't there, but they'll make up all kinds of stuff to say that Judge Lang was a liar, etc. etc..

    It gets tiresome looking at Mormons posting denials of actual history. On another site we have a Mormon denying the Kirtland bank fraud. Everybody is wrong when it comes to Joe Smith but the Mormons! Today's Mormons deny the testimony of those who lived in Smith's era and saw first hand what a real low life he was. For instance, Cowdery got in trouble for exposing Smith's "skirt chasing.":

    "**Calling Out Skirt-Chasing Smith for Chasing Fannie's Fanny

    What got Cowdery in particularly hot water with Smith was his adamant refusal to cease condemning Smith for Smith's extra-marital affair with a teenage girl named Fannie Alger. Cowdery's unbending insistence that Smith had cheated on his wife Emma infuriated the Mormon Church's “First Elder” and, as historian Fawn Brodie notes, was instrumental in Cowdery's excommunicated: “. . . Some time in 1835 it began to be whispered about that [Smith] had seduced a 17-year-old orphan girl whom Emma had taken into the family. . . .Whether or not Fannie Alger bore Joseph a child, it was clear that the breath of the scandal was hot upon his neck. . . . Oliver Cowdery knew the report of an illicit affair between the girl and the prophet to be true, for they 'were spied upon and found together.' Cowdery made no secret of his indignation and Joseph finally called him in and accused him of perpetuating the scandal. . . . [I]n a letter from Oliver Cowdery to his brother Warren A. Cowdery, dated Far West, Missouri, 21 January 1839] Oliver wrote: 'We had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that what I had said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deserted from the truth in that matter and as I supposed was admitted by himself.' . . . Cowdery himself stoutly refused to exonerate the prophet and eventually was excommunicated from the Church for several misdemeanors, among them 'insinuating that the prophet had been guilty of adultery.'” (Ibid.)

    Did Oliver have a lifelong commitment to Mormonism as the cult today claims? No way:

    -Oliver Cowdery's Alleged Lifelong Commitment to Mormonism: He Quits and Becomes a Methodist

    Shook notes that Cowdery's law partner Lang, in a letter to Gregg, described Cowdery's departure from Mormonism in favor of Methodism: “Now as to whether C[owdery] ever openly denounced Mormonism, let me say this to you; No man ever knew better than he how to keep one's own counsel. He would never allow any man to drag him into a conversation on the subject. Cowdery was a Democrat and a most powerful advocate of the principles of the party on the stump. For this he became the target of the Whig stumpers and press, who denounced him as a Mormon and made free use of C[owdery's] certificate at the end of the Mormon Bible to crush his influence. He suffered great abuse for this while he lived here on that account. In the second year of his residence here he and his family attached themselves to the Methodist Protestant Church, where they held fellowship to the time they left for Elkhorn. . . . .” (Ibid.)


    By the way, the Methodist Protestant Church was a very strict church, and brooked no ***ociation with anything that cast doubt upon the Gospel. I know this because I used to send my kids to a Methodist Protestant camp.

    Cowdery died prematurely at the home of his brother-in-law, David Whitmer. While the Mormons like to claim him as their own (he flirted with Mormonism after Joey's death - after all, his cousin is the one who excommunicated him - the truth is that Cowdery never was reconciled with Young or the Mormon cult):

    “If Cowdery was restored to the LDS Church, why did a Methodist preacher preach at his funeral?” Moreover, as noted in a text of the “Gatewood-Farnsworth Debate” of 1942, even though Cowdery returned in full devotion to Mormonism, “[a]ny statements that Cowdery was said to have made [about his allegedly abiding faith in Mormonism]. . . were published after his death, and were made [not by Cowdery] but by other men. . . . [W]e never have anything in Oliver Cowdery's own words. (Ibid.)

    Mormons, as we all know, are not above twisting facts and lying (for the Lord, of course) to cover up the truth. Oliver Cowdery was a tool in Satan's hand and a pawn of Smith. I'm glad he died before returning to Utah - and perhaps he died in integrity, repenting of his ***ociation with the godless cult of Joseph Smith! God intervened in the end, and took him away from whatever persuasive tactics the Mormons could apply.

    I lot of new information here....I will have to do a search on some of this to learn even more of the details...

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