God's Price: Science Fiction

The price for all was the price from one, he thought, burying his head in his hands as he knelt in front of the altar. If it was as simple as doing whatever you were already doing, it negated the value of that sacrifice. If what you were doing was killing your neighbor, instead of loving him, that could not be right. It could not. And yet, it felt so good, so easy. But if that was the case, then what was he? What part of God could he be? Was the pastor to another God the part of God? Or had he derailed his intended life when he swore himself to a god that the aliens denied existed (yet)? Were those who suffered intended to be the suffering part of God? Should their suffering only be enhanced? Should exquisite torture chambers be created to make them the perfect suffering parts of God?


Inspiration: More musing on the WorldCon story idea (note to self: see http://penthius.livejournal.com/321684.html).
Story Potential: High
Notes: I've got the alien religion figured, now I just need the crisis of faith, the resolution, and some sort of emotional denouement...then, of course, to write it in a week.