I think you can take an expansive view of free exercise rights without having to buy into insane plastic-reindeer readings of the Establishment Clause.
When you move from the realm of religious ideas to the realm of white powders, it is easier to draw concrete distinctions based on harm. If you apply a harm principle to religions, you get 1618.
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But the IRS does in fact have to distinguish between a religion and a non religion.
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RFRA forces juries and judges to make a similar distinction. And it’s extremely difficult. There’s a great book The Impossibility of Religious Freedom that outlines the problem.
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