Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults who attend services seldom or never by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who attend services seldom or never by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults who attend services seldom or never 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 | 36% | 7% | 47% | 8% | 2% | 1,107 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 19% | 10% | 61% | 8% | 2% | 1,571 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 30% | 8% | 46% | 4% | 11% | 136 |
Not the word of God | 3% | 19% | 59% | 18% | 2% | 6,844 |
Other/don't know | 8% | 12% | 64% | 9% | 7% | 827 |
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