Sources of guidance on right and wrong among other/mixed non-Hispanic ethnicities by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among other/mixed non-Hispanic ethnicities by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of other/mixed non-Hispanic ethnicities 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 | 60% | 4% | 29% | 4% | 3% | 409 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 41% | 12% | 39% | 7% | 1% | 370 |
Not the word of God | 5% | 16% | 63% | 14% | 2% | 501 |
Other/don't know | 13% | 14% | 50% | 12% | 11% | 164 |
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