@hingehead,
Love predates religion and indeed, it may well predate man. Yet it is re-enforced or not by culture.
And they are many kinds of love. Jesus mainly stressed love for the poor and the downtrodden, and love for all including one's enemies. He had little to say about carnal or romantic love, inexperienced as he was...
I am not saying Christianity is better. Be careful with those strawmen, you use them a bit too often. But religions are different; as tempting as it is to lump them all together, they bring various stuff to the table. They all haved their strengths and their weaknesses. I were from India, I hope I would find it in myself to help the poor and the dying instead of leaving all that work to some Mother Theresa or another.
Even the Talmud recognises indirectly that Christians are good with charity.
And this value, of caring for the poot, one of the very few that Europe adopted from the Judeo-Christian tradition, is important to me and I glad to see that many secular groups in Europe have kept up with it.