text: Why do you ask a broad question with a rainbow of answers and then offer a polar answer of science vs. religion.\n\nThere are many kinds of love, and they have multiple purposes and reasons or lack there of.\n\nMother/Child\nSister/Brother\nTwo Best Friends\nA Student and their favorite teacher (hopefully not sexual)\nLove for ancestors, deceased.\nLove of Artworks and their artists.\netc.\n\nLove is undefinable, because each love is distinct, different, and unique. Hate and Love are not mutally exclusive. You can hate and love some one. This is often the case.\n\nI'm gay, but love lots of women.