I don't hit the dog or throw the scope around. Love and hate are intertwined though. You can have a motive to kill a loved one rather than a stranger down the street. When people get sick or injured, they go crying to God all the time. That's when they think they need God's help.
Love is a strong human emotion with many varibles involed.
Even for science to make a coment on this would be abstract. Not all humans misuse there intelligence. This again would depened on the subject of refrence. Ignorance goes in all directions, scientific as well as religous types. This refers back to understanding or reasoning.