General Superintendent of the Holy Spirit Mission, Ikeja, Lagos State, Bishop Charles Ighele, on Wednesday called for a ban on the celebration of Valentine’s Day in Nigeria.
Ighele made the called in an interview with Newsmen in Lagos, against the backdrop of illicit sexual abuse attached to the day by some people.
He said that the day had been misconstrued to the promotion of romantic relationships, rather than its original promotion of aid to the needy and humanitarian works.
He described it as a deception from the devil to impose a universal day of immorality on planet earth.
According to him, unfortunately, many boys, girls and married people have bought into this lie about love in disregard to the agape love described in the bible.
”The day is associated with a romantic demon known as cupid. This demon is one of the rulers of the darkness of this world as found in Ephesians 6 verses 11 and 12.
”Cupid is the Roman name for the Greek god of love known as Eros. The English word erotic has its root in Eros.
”The dictionary defines the word erotic as relating to or tendency to arouse sexual desire or excitement.
”The celebration of the day inspires sexual feelings on people and spread sexual entertainment in order to further institutionalise sex.”
The cleric added that ”cupid” influenced humans to set aside Feb. 14, as a special day for people do whatever they want to do with sex and the perversion of true love.
“The Bible tells us that ‘God is love’, and it is very certain that God will not want His type of love celebrated this way,’’ he said.
