Lets dissect this lot called Hindus ... All the inhabitants of the land beside the Indus river were originally known as Hindus ... and there was nothing religious because there was no religion...
Later on it became a school-of-thought and most call it a religion...
So who are Hindus??? They are melting pot of the original inhabitants of India (Dravid tribes) ... they arrived in India much earlier around 70-80 thousands years back ... right when the first bunch of modern human beings moved out of Africa ...There after around 5000 years back there were multiple arrival of people from the modern day Iran ... They were the Aryan tribes ... These Aryan tribes amalgamated their thoughts and believes into those of Dravidian tribes and then it is that the hinduism started taking shape...
According to Hinduism there is only one GOD but it has three basic forms (trinity of GOD, creator, preserver and the destroyer) and there can be various incarnation (avtaar) of these forms...So the hindus worship so many GODs in their idol form... But the intellectual hindus mean only one GOD ... Hinduism allows for enough creative freedom in all areas of life and hence creation of new GODs and god-men too... This is unlike other religion like Islam where it is strictly enforced ...
So why do we see the creations of god-men so often in Hinduism???
Its because of spiritual vacuum created in modern day humans ... There life is so ridden with pains of various kinds ... that they easily fall prey to common man faking himself as god-man... trying to relieve them of their pains...
I have always wished there to be one GOD or no GOD for all the masses ... because there are idiots in this modern age also who start differentiating on basis of GOD you follow... Little do they know that there is only one DIVINE.
