Theravada Buddhism here!
Ur wrong. Buddha was NOT a God, nor for Buddhist people to worshipped for. "Buddha" means "The Awakened One". Buddha himself is a teaching people to understand about "who am i?", "why am I here?", "what is life for, and what does it mean?". Buddhist people ACTUALLY worshipped for their own understand comphersive of being exist, and they meditiated to get in touch with their own soul and their own thoughts. Who taught them to do that? Buddha. I see no any meaning of Buddha as God.
Also Buddhism could think Jesus is one of the ardhts, which means Jesus may be a Buddha! Buddhism is no antichrist. Nor there is any wrong about follow Buddha that are against Christian.
Research about Buddhism before you stare at the statue, which are not helping you learn.
And my opinion about the Buddha statue, that picture you post there is Gautama, the very first Buddha that are born in 800 AD. Maybe the Buddhist people make the statue to make Buddha a unforgettable and use as for meditating enviroments.