Jesus taught that you should hate your parents, your family and your own life:
"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
Luke 14:26
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*under the condition that you love God instead with your entire being.
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It doesn't say anything like that in Luke 14. Only to bear your cross and follow him, v. 27. The cross is this cursed existence, full of suffering, pain & death. Jesus was full on antinatalist. He modeled it for his followers. Many are called, few get it.
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Sure, maybe. I can certainly see that within Buddhism. And if one were to fully emulate Christ literally then yes, he did not have children and so shouldn't his followers as well.
Though in Luke 10:24 it does have the bit about love. For explicit antinatalism from Christ Mk.14:21
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Luke 10:24, Jesus tells his followers they're lucky to get to hear his teaching
Mark 14:21, Jesus says Judas is going to be sorry for selling him out
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Yeah, just meant that if you wanted to make a case for AN explicitly from Jesus, that passage in Mark shows that it would have been better if Judas had never been born, and if it's the case for Judas, any potential person could be a Judas in their life.
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Indeed! As the passage reads: "Woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born." This would apply to any who betray him. Woe & suffering are the result of those who do not follow Jesus & reject AN.