[mythrwy]

That's a bit of a romantic view, those kind of communities ain't all roses either in my experience.

They breed a lot of narrow minded small thinking bigots, even if they do return wallets.

The idea we should as a society somehow return to a romantic past that never actually existed isn't a good one in my opinion. And we can't do that anyway because our understanding has changed.

Not that there aren't a lot of good things from the past that somehow got dropped by the wayside, there are.

[sonnyblarney]

"somehow return to a romantic past"

Contentiousness is not a 'romantic past', it's a perennial ideal.

[mythrwy]

And one I'm entirely in favor of.

But these communities do tend to have a dark side along with the positive attributes you correctly mention.

Additionally, if the basis is faith, and people no longer have that, what then?