Birds do it, bees do it.

Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's do: God's work.

These days, it’s seems that there are a lot of people out there claiming to be doing “God’s work.”

In a speech at Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women conference, famed financier Warren Buffett compared Wall Street to a church, stating that Wall Street “does a lot of good things and then it has this casino… It’s like a church that’s running raffles on the weekend.” While I heartily agree that Wall Street and those on it do a lot of good work, I hesitate to compare their operation to a church. I’d compare it more to chain restaurant, like the Olive Garden. On the surface, the Olive Garden provides a useful service, and all the breadsticks you can eat, to millions of customers. But if you dig a little deeper, you wonder who benefits the most from the Olive Garden: the millions of Americans who eat 10,000 extra calories worth of breadsticks in an outing and who have come to mistake the Olive Garden for fine Italian dining? Or the owners of the Olive Garden franchise?

Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, went further in an article that appeared in The Times of London in 2009, claiming, perhaps facetiously, that at Goldman Sachs he was doing “God's work.” Whether said in jest or not, the mere mention of “God's work” from guy who raked in $53.4 million in 2006 alone seems a little over the top.

Other notable figures who claim to do or to have done God’s work recently include: Bishop Eddie Long, Pastor Terry Jones, and Heidi Montag, to name just a few. Considering this rag-tag crew responsible for “God's work,” I'm happy to count myself among those doing their own work and nobody else's. And I think that most of the people mentioned here should do the same. In the words of Russell Simmons: “Do you!”

And leave God’s work to God because the rest of you suck at it.