[jlogajan]

Morals are instucted by the 10 Commandments

So where it says in the 2nd commandment "...I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me..."

what moral is being instructed? To be jealous and vengeful against the children to the third and fourth generation?

[codebreaker]

Is that like 'the sins of the father shall be visited upon the son?'

[AndrewC]

what moral is being instructed?

Do not hate God.

[Gurn]

You left an important part of the passage out: "You shall have no other gods before me."

That's when the jealousy comes in.

God is not mocked, and he punishes those who take other gods before him. What's hard -- even if you reject the premise -- to understand about that?

Gould spent a lifetime mocking God, and making evolution his god. What other questions do you have?