I don't usually put comments on my work, but this poem makes some people irate.  "Calling Out God" came off the top of my head in about ten minutes.  It's not eloquent and not meant to be. I like the pulpiteers line because I'm weary of any preacher who lives the high life on poor widow's pennies...aka Leroy Jenkins, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swagart, Jim Baker, and onward. I don't believe all Christians are like described here. Many including most of my family are the salt of the earth. If we're actually created in his image, God would want us to believe and question, not acquiesce to the bloodsuckers in charge who want us to blindly follow. The hit against "the followers" is just expressing the frustration of watching the moral majority type Christian get involved in politics following like sheep without actually weighing the consequences. Cheney and Rove had the mindset and could have been Himmler and Goerbels, but it wouldn't have mattered since they were in the "god-fearing" party. Politically, I don't know that either party actually represents the average American citizen. I have no qualms with Christianity, the poem's just something that came out of the frustration of wondering why so much suffering now and displaying a Christian with enough courage to ask why. I believe the real Jesus would have appreciated it.

Link to a discussion Calling Out God on Fine Art America

My response to being called a blasphemer:

"All great truths begin as blasphemies” – George Bernard Shaw

No, I don't really consider it blasphemy...that word's been used against an awful lot of free thinkers including Martin Luther, Galileo, and many others. The Pharisees considered Jesus teachings as blasphemy at the time.

I think the poem just represents honest, open defiance of the cop-out of modern religion's propensity to try to avoid current problems by hoping for destruction as a savior instead of rolling up their sleeves and making "this" world a better place.

Matthew 4:7

Jesus answered him, "It is also written: `Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'"
 

Addendum - This is the honest to goodness truth.  After I wrote this poem, a lot of bad things started happening: My marriage that was already on the rocks sank to even a lower level of which details I won't get into.  My wife was stricken with pneumonia.  I was hospitalized for the first time in my adult life with an abdominal aliment still unidentified.  My basement flooded twice.  And the final straw was when my oldest biological child was in a automobile accident in which she was swept up in a flash flood.  She was fortunate enough to grab hold of a tree a few hundred yards downstream and hold on for an hour until help arrive.  Unfortunately, it claimed the life of one of her best friends.  That evening, I sat down and wrote God's reply.  I doubt I'll ever buy into a particular religion, but I do believe there's a force out there they try to define as God.  I believe there is an afterlife we can't really begin to fathom and that what you do in this life matters in some way.  I also think I will re-exam the intentions of my writing and the karma my life generates.

Link to a discussion Calling Out God addendum on Fine Art America

Side Note: There are three different random poems when you hit the "Calling Out God" link.  The poem actually ends three different ways; "work for me", "share for me", and "love for me".  If you hit the back button on your browser, you can eventually see all three versions.