Hi Babaluji,
Rawat and premies want to have their cake and eat it too: Be a tax-exempt church in the U.S. but claim not to be a religion, and a non-religion with no members, but when criticized, they are being targetted by "intolerant" apostates and bigots. It really takes some nerve, IMO.
Although, a while ago a premie told me on this board that premies can have their cake and eat it too. So there you go. Another clue to how much arrested development occurs within a cult. Two year old mentality.