Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults who seldom or never attend prayer groups by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who seldom or never attend prayer groups by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults who seldom or never attend prayer groups 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% | 43% | 6% | 2% | 2,862 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 25% | 9% | 57% | 7% | 2% | 4,941 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 34% | 5% | 47% | 4% | 10% | 373 |
Not the word of God | 4% | 18% | 59% | 17% | 2% | 10,512 |
Other/don't know | 13% | 12% | 60% | 9% | 7% | 1,707 |
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