[bhupy]

Society tends to develop and outgrow its mythology — lots of religious texts contain practices that no modern society would engage in (see: the Old Testament).

Nobody that's actually raised in modern mainstream Hindu society is conditioned to accept drug consumption or polyamory. The only way one might draw a contrary conclusion is if they were from the outside looking in, merely studying the mythology and totally ignoring what modern Hindu society has looked like in the last 100 years leading up to today.

I was raised in an extremely orthodox Hindu household, worshipping all of the Gods of Hinduism. Polyamory/polygamy is unheard of — if anyone in one's local temple engaged in it, they would be the subject of everyone's gossip. Ditto drug use...

[random314]

My reply was in a narrow context, where American Christian ideals are projected as Universal human ideals.