Buddhism vs Christianity

These are both religious systems oversimplified. Now is the time to lean into your biases or personal opinions and discuss which foundation you believe is superior, and if one applies to you more. Any objections you can likewise raise. Which one leads to a more fulfilling life?

Consider a hypothetical scenario where in the absence of spiritual beings and The Divine, which one would you prefer?

 In his book The God Delusion, Dawkins argued that religious faith is “persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence”, and thus delusional.

Buddhism is not a religion in the sense in which that word is commonly understood, for it is not “a system of faith and worship owing any allegiance to a supernatural being.”
Buddhism does not demand blind faith from its adherents. Here mere belief is dethroned and is substituted by confidence based on knowledge, which, in Pali, is known as saddha. The confidence placed by a follower on the Buddha is like that of a sick person in a noted physician, or a student in his teacher. A Buddhist seeks refuge in the Buddha because it was he who discovered the path of deliverance.
A Buddhist does not seek refuge in the Buddha with the hope that he will be saved by his (i.e. the Buddha’s own) personal purification. The Buddha gives no such guarantee. It is not within the power of a Buddha to wash away the impurities of others. One could neither purify nor defile another. The Buddha, as teacher, instructs us, but we ourselves are directly responsible for our purification. Although a Buddhist seeks refuge in the Buddha, he does not make any self-surrender. Nor does a Buddhist sacrifice his freedom of thought by becoming a follower of the Buddha. He can exercise his own free will and develop his knowledge even to the extent of becoming a Buddha himself.
The starting point of Buddhism is reasoning or understanding, or, in the Pali words, samma-ditthi.

Answer your OP first.

Buddhism in its pure form is about transcending and avoiding suffering. Helping others is virtuous but less important.

Christianity isn't about gratuitous suffering and in the right sense transcending it is OK. But what makes chrustianity superior is that it ofioritizes helping others and in fact says you should embrace suffering for the greater good. This is seen as necessary and critical to both family, the core unit of society, and society itself too. We don't develop properly without people being willing to embrace suffering.

Buddhism has a lot of good points to it, but these key points are why it is a fundamentally flawed worldview

Which do you think makes more sense, on a scientific level? 

Answer it yourself.