I have enjoyed your comment. Thank-you.

Buddha was a sinner who abandoned his family and his responsibilities to pursue enlightenment but eventually came to know God.

Interesting. I did not know this.

I think his story mirrors that of many of Christ's disciples. :)

Perhaps.

I think Christ and Buddha would have liked each other,

At prima facie, I think you may be right.
But this argument would require a longer discussion, whereas their values were quite different. Though he had other teachings, Buddha was primarily about "self".

Our civilization is falling apart because America has, for the most part, moved away from the teachings of God.

Few churches even teach The Word anymore.
So many revisions of The Holy Bible which stripped away its essence in hopes to clarify it, how could one hope to understand God's Word now?

But that does not mean that Buddhism is dismissive of Christianity, and it certainly does not mean that it exists in opposition to it.

When I was a teen, the Lesbians and Gays just wanted the right to get married.

(squnits one eye at ya) There is no grey area about a dangerous force.
It is either totally aligned with your direction or it can and may push you off course
even if at first it doesn't seem to be pushing in direct opposition.