Can someone be so-called "spiritual" without being moral? No.
So then, what is it to be "spiritual". I will tell you.
"Spiritual" is moral.
"Spirituality" is morality.
To act "spiritually" is to act morally.
"Spiritual" is a euphemism to relate to how to live life as a "higher" truer realer version of ourselves in alignment with morality. "Spirit" of the Most "High"...
How can someone claim to be "spiritual" yet be immoral? It's absurd. A child rapist could claim to be "spiritual" on those grounds. It's a joke if anyone accepts that "spirituality" is not wholly based in morality.
That is the only "spirituality" that matters. The rest is just belief invented in consciousness, often used, like you say, to justify actions and behavior based on an imagined externalized central authority over our lives, called "God".
Most of my work deals with coming to understand morality and living it in life. Check it out @krnel.
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Exactly.