Racial and ethnic composition among who say philosophy/reason is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among who say philosophy/reason is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by race/ethnicity
% of who say philosophy/reason is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong who identify as…
Interpreting scripture | White | Black | Asian | Latino | Other/Mixed | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 45% | 21% | 2% | 28% | 3% | 368 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 64% | 10% | 5% | 16% | 5% | 821 |
Not the word of God | 73% | 4% | 7% | 13% | 3% | 2,332 |
Other/don't know | 63% | 10% | 7% | 14% | 6% | 276 |
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