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What does one call one's self when his or her religious/spiritaul views do not adhere to any one religion but rather cross over several faith traditions and philosophical approaches?

I mean, I seem to combine elements of at least but not limited to:

Christianity
Humanism
Deism
Buddhism
Existentialism
 
Confused. (My apologies if this offends.)

Try asking yourself what are the fundamental beliefs in each of the faith traditions and see if they agree. You will find that that will be contradictions that you either have to live with or resolve in your own way, unfortunately.
 
Could you tell us what elements from each you want to keep?

Which elements do you desire to discard?
 
"What does one call one's self when his or her religious/spiritaul views do not adhere to any one religion but rather cross over several faith traditions and philosophical approaches?"

Such a person is called an eclectic.
 
Eclectic only if the pieces from different faith traditions fit together without internal contradictions.

But, one tends to invest a lot of emotions into one's beliefs, and that makes it hard for one to detect logical holes in one's beliefs.
 
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