For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

Ehrenreich has two children. She divorced Stevenson in 1993. In 1983 Barbara Ehrenreich married Gary Stevenson a union organizer for the Teamsters.

She is a widely-read and award-winning columnist and essayist and author of 21 books. During the 1980s and early 1990s Barbara Ehrenreich was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. Barbara Ehrenreich (pron.