Richard Nygren, “one of the only African-American apologists,” Comes to DCP’s Aid
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2023 4:28 am
The war between the Mopologists and the Heartlanders continues. Everybody Wang Chung and drumdude have already highlighted some key tidbits from the “SeN” proprietor’s recent post, but I was struck by a couple of details. First, Dr. Peterson is citing a pretty obviously unhinged post as being representative of FIRM, even though, per the comments, this is coming from one person. Dr. Peterson writes:
Then why repeat this at all?
But the larger problem is that “Peter Pan,” the proprietor of the “Neville-Neville Land” blog, which has been wholly devoted to publicly smearing Jonathan Neville and trying to drive a wedge between factions of Latter-day Saints for several years now, shows up to add to the attacks. “Chubby Steve” addresses Pan as “Stephen Smoot, and both Pan and DCP deny that he’s the one.
Okay, sure. But the Mopologists have stated publicly that the true author of “Neville-Neville Land” is a Black man from Alabama named Richard Nygren. Pan himself has said this on “SeN” and Robert Boylan said the same on a YouTube podcast interview of the lumpy and ineffectual Spencer Kraus. Boylan seems like a straight shooter: either he is a racist, bald-faced liar, or he was *lied to.* Or, there really is a Black LDS from Alabama who is close friends with DCP and who has spent the past 4 years openly trashing other Latter-day Saints and trying to get them excommunicated.
What’s the truth here? It’s not that hard to guess. What I can say with a high degree of confidence is that these shenanigans are going to have a direct impact on what happens (or doesn’t) with the new Interpreter film project. If the Mopologists have been collectively inventing a phony Black man in order to trash the Heartlanders…. Well, what is likely to come of that?
Sowing discord among the Latter-day Saints and spreading hateful contention is the devil's work.
Then why repeat this at all?
But the larger problem is that “Peter Pan,” the proprietor of the “Neville-Neville Land” blog, which has been wholly devoted to publicly smearing Jonathan Neville and trying to drive a wedge between factions of Latter-day Saints for several years now, shows up to add to the attacks. “Chubby Steve” addresses Pan as “Stephen Smoot, and both Pan and DCP deny that he’s the one.
Okay, sure. But the Mopologists have stated publicly that the true author of “Neville-Neville Land” is a Black man from Alabama named Richard Nygren. Pan himself has said this on “SeN” and Robert Boylan said the same on a YouTube podcast interview of the lumpy and ineffectual Spencer Kraus. Boylan seems like a straight shooter: either he is a racist, bald-faced liar, or he was *lied to.* Or, there really is a Black LDS from Alabama who is close friends with DCP and who has spent the past 4 years openly trashing other Latter-day Saints and trying to get them excommunicated.
What’s the truth here? It’s not that hard to guess. What I can say with a high degree of confidence is that these shenanigans are going to have a direct impact on what happens (or doesn’t) with the new Interpreter film project. If the Mopologists have been collectively inventing a phony Black man in order to trash the Heartlanders…. Well, what is likely to come of that?