The Puritain nuts who settled here were not an example of spontaneous generation.  The came here from somewhere else.  I dare say we could trace the Christian fundamentalists, like the Islamic and Jewish ones, all the way back to the place where they all started.  Since then it's just been one struggle of the zealots agianst everyone else after another, resulting in one forced relocation and one mission constructed after another...

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire