“The earth, O Lord, is full of your steadfast love,” said the psalmist.
It may be argued that in a fallen creation the “steadfast love” of God that fills
the earth is easier to recognize at some moments than at others. But contrast that with a
materialistic universe, where genuine love is absent by definition.
Someone got Catholic novelist John C. Wright going on the
subject of the atheistic vs. the theistic worldview and their respective
implications, in particular for the possibility of love as opposed to mere
sentimentalism.