"Spiritual" often seems to be code for "cherry-picked, watered-down versions of various beliefs from other cultures which are poorly applied and poorly understood and tied together in new-age books marketed toward lonely people".
Although, granted, there isn't really a proper, fitting term for those who are agnostic or undecided but also strongly believe in some otherworldly force (and yes I realize someone is going to volunteer the word "delusional", but aside from that..!) and may or may not have their own cobbled-together belief system that isn't rigid enough to be a religion because it's fluid and changes often.
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