The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him.
The awesome record of God's punitive judgments upon the antediluvian world, upon Sodom and Gomorrah, and upon many cultures and civilizations since them should be enough to warn America that: