Do Buddhists Believe in God?

Born and raised in a Buddhist family, my mother always told me how absurd it was that people believed in God. She always told me how many atrocities were committed in the name of God and Jesus Christ. However, she would always tell me that the purpose of the Buddhist practice was to become aligned with the “Rhythm” of the Universe. In the Gosho(the equivalent of the Holy Bible in my Buddhist sect). But when I started reading A Course in Miracles, I realized that God and the Universe are the same thing. Different word, different language but it pointing to the same thing. People are shocked when use the word God, because they believe that Buddhists don’t believe in God. All Buddhists believe in God, except we refer to it as the Universe. Others...

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