[tarotuser]

Then you grossly misread the articles.

For the majority religions, its still a paperwork game. However it's also rather standard filing and granting said non-profit status.

The minority religions are told time and again, that "we're not really religions and not worthy of non-profit status". And when we're able to do so, we fight for state recognition of our religion. Most of the times, this fails for us.

And naturally, there's some severe problems with "state recognition of religion leading to non-profit status" and "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".