Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults who attend services monthly or yearly by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who attend services monthly or yearly by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults who attend services monthly or yearly who say they look to…most for guidance on right and wrong
Interpreting scripture | Religion | Philosophy/reason | Common sense | Science | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 44% | 6% | 41% | 7% | 2% | 2,447 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 26% | 10% | 56% | 7% | 2% | 3,532 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 41% | 2% | 42% | 4% | 11% | 243 |
Not the word of God | 8% | 19% | 57% | 14% | 2% | 4,020 |
Other/don't know | 18% | 14% | 54% | 8% | 6% | 972 |
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