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Originally Posted by GA Russell
I suppose that it would be politically incorrect today to make the Mormons the bad guys. If I were a Mormon, I wouldn't be happy about it! A few months ago I read The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, and noticed that its author Howard Pyle made the bishop the bad guy second only to the Sheriff of Nottingham, and had Robin Hood murdered by a nun, so I had to figure that Pyle was anti-Catholic. I'm a Catholic, and I'm accustomed to anti-Catholicism, so maybe the Mormons are accustomed to anti-Mormonism too.
I did think that Grey did a good job of tying up all the loose ends at the end of the book.
What say you?
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Ah but in the case of Robin Hood the church and the rich nobles were the villains in the original stories I think. They had the $ and power and the poor serfs were little better than slaves after the Norman conquest of England. So Mr. Pyle may simply have been penning modern language versions of the original ballads which had the same villains opposite Robin Hood and his men.