Detachment from the world and desire is important to Christians and Buddhists. Christians though don't believe in rebirth. Except- being born again in spirit through the regenerative work of God through His son Jesus and the grace of the Holy Spirit. I think most people that aren't Christians don't understand the Triune God- one God in three persons.
Christians believe people are created- not reborn, and yet all of mankind is spiritually dead because of original sin. If they are reborn in the Spirit through the calling of the Holy Spirit and saved through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross- when Jesus paid the penalty of sin as a substitution for those saved, then people have eternal life with God through Jesus Christ. Buddhism though would leave one at oblivion after a course with Nibbana of detachment from desire; basically sharing the same fate, as modern worldly, scientific atheists. Democrats may have a desire to be detached from sound economic reasoning and security, yet that doesn't count.
God is perfect and perfectly good and cannot look upon sin or tolerate it in His divine economy. Hell would be to spend eternity without God and yet have a spiritual existence- imagine all of the lights of the stars extinguished forever, with all things God created, and only the unsaved and lost existed in that space. The saved will be elsewhere.
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