Religious tradition among who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by religious group
% of who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong who are…
Interpreting scripture | Buddhist | Catholic | Evangelical Protestant | Hindu | Historically Black Protestant | Jehovah's Witness | Jewish | Mainline Protestant | Mormon | Muslim | Orthodox Christian | Other Christian | Other Faiths | Other World Religions | Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | < 1% | 13% | 55% | < 1% | 11% | 2% | < 1% | 10% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | 6,154 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 25% | 37% | < 1% | 6% | 2% | 1% | 17% | 6% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 3% | < 1% | 3,819 |
Word of God; other/don't know | < 1% | 16% | 45% | < 1% | 8% | 3% | 1% | 14% | 4% | 2% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | 538 |
Not the word of God | 1% | 36% | 17% | < 1% | 5% | < 1% | 2% | 18% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 3% | < 1% | 14% | 1% | 703 |
Other/don't know | 1% | 27% | 28% | 1% | 12% | 1% | 1% | 17% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 2% | 1% | 6% | < 1% | 540 |
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