Sodom.

*Continues from ‘The Birth of Sodom’”

In his first year of university, he found a new god. He worshiped himself every weekend with beers and orgasms that would make the most zealous of men stand in awe. With this zeal, he was able to suppress the past and start forging for himself a new future.

Akin was a smart one. He never struggled with academia and could understand principles in one hour that would take the average person 3 days to process. He didn’t struggle in his first year at all, and for him it was a blessing. It gave him more time to ‘worship’ as he would call it. He refused to acknowledge the God of his childhood. He saw the Christian faith as one filled with hypocrites and liars. For him, the Church was not a sanctuary. It was a mausoleum, and so he decided to find life elsewhere. He found it amongst friends, in the bed of the latest swipe from tinder and in a life without rules.

He went home one weekend to spend time with his family. His father resided in Nigeria and came to visit occasionally, about 5 times a year. It wasn’t an ideal situation, but it worked well for him and Akin’s mother. Akin had stopped questioning it once he had started developing a relationship with Pastor Tobi, but once that was gone, the child in him longed for a relationship with his father, and so he took whatever he could get. Which included these random visits.