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>>24594692
You're saying something that isn't objectionable from the standpoint of Buddhism. Any Buddhist scholar will tell you "That's the whole point, to stop craving and with it further rebirths." That's like criticizing Christianity on the basis that it promotes chastity - you'll be told it's a core tenet and even virtue leading to your wellbeing. At the very least, a criticism of Buddhism must include why existence is ultimately good.
>>24594409
They do ultimately believe in the same thing (the noble truths, no self, the reality of samsara, cessation of suffering through cessation of desire etc) but between themselves discuss the various paths to enlightenment. They argue about whether enlightenment can be instantaneous or gradual, do you go to a pre-nirvana heaven or not and can you (or should) come back from stream entry to save other, oblivious beings who cling to existence. The ethics are completely the same, the core mechanism of samsara and nirvana is mutually agreed on and most important of all; they all are on good terms among each other. It's not like Christianity where they fought wars on the basis of whether Jesus was both God and Man of God as separate entities at once or the same in a superposition.
>>24594578
What you said is a misnomer because nirvana is a complete lack of perspective, because it's a complete lack of any concepts or anything at all. The only thing it might contain is pure mind, but not even that because there is nothing to be perceived by it. So if nirvana is all there is, then existence is a curse. The only thing stopping you from suicide is the fact that you'll be born again as a rat or in hell, meaning it's up to your next round to not crave, even suicide.
>>24594949
You can't really criticize Buddhism from the point of Christianity because it doesn't have any fleshed out apologetics against it. You just have the standard position against all heresies at face value - they're heresies because they don't follow the Holy Scripture and the teachings of the Church (Fathers). In other words, don't think much about it, just ignore it all as demonic lies. But there isn't much critical review of Buddhist doctrine to be found just as you do for other religions like Judaism, Islam, (hellenic) Paganism or Gnosticism. It's an especially interesting topic because people refer to some similarities of both religions all of the time and the fact that, because of it, people are leaving for Buddhism which seems more "sophisticated". A famous Buddhist monk and westerner by birth went to East Asia after reading De Imitatio Christi, so it's a real topic that people want real answers to.