Then as usual, you see this all throughout biblical history as well, we started down the path of depravity that we would have never imagined this nation would stoop to. When God warned his people of the practices conducted in those nations that he was going to hand over to them, he had this in mind and I'm sure that his people never would have imagined stooping to their levels of depravity....Ba'al, Ashoreth were pagan gods to which these nations sacrificed their children. I'm sure that they never would have believed that they would be capable of such evil however sure enough, they prooved themselves wrong and it always started by just ignoring a simple piece of advice by God. He warned them to destroy all of those temples, statues...