Did you get this conception of GOD from Burroughs? RAW offers a different story, one of Hassan-i-Sabbah, who was drugging his subordinates with hashish and introducing them to the actual of "Garden of Delights", which was a mixture of one's ideal picture of heavenly heaven with virgins offered at hand and a theme park with an unlimited cotton candy dispenser. Once the effect of a drug ceased he was convincing his followers that this is what they will get after death, so essentially all the GOD talk is just the matter of hoax-artistry and exploitation of desires, nothing metaphysical, a very Nietzschean mundane, cynical way of looking at it. However, I guess it's better than having a bloody alien plant lifefrom fostering you to use as a battery later.

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Yes, this idea of GOD is from Burroughs' "Soft Machine". But it is not a plant but a space station there. And this space station jams any attempts of earthlings to communicate with alien races, while being swindled by a gang of aliens who owns GOD. So, good aliens atack it in a Star Wars like scene.

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