Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults who seldom or never pray by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who seldom or never pray by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults who seldom or never pray 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 | 29% | 7% | 51% | 12% | 2% | 356 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 10% | 11% | 66% | 12% | 1% | 789 |
Not the word of God | 2% | 19% | 57% | 21% | 1% | 6,428 |
Other/don't know | 6% | 13% | 60% | 14% | 7% | 515 |
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