“God wasn’t at all pleased; but he let them do it their way, worship every new god that came down the pike—and live with the consequences, consequences described by the prophet Amos:Did you bring me offerings of animals and grainsthose forty wilderness years, O Israel?Hardly. You were too busy building shrinesto war gods, to sex goddesses,Worshiping them with all your might.That’s why I put you in exile in Babylon.