Religious tradition among adults in Generation X by sources of guidance on right and wrong (2014) Switch to: Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults in Generation X by religious group
% of adults in Generation X who are…
Sources of guidance on right and wrong | Buddhist | Catholic | Evangelical Protestant | Hindu | Historically Black Protestant | Jehovah's Witness | Jewish | Mainline Protestant | Mormon | Muslim | Orthodox Christian | Other Christian | Other Faiths | Other World Religions | Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | Don't know | Sample size |
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Religion | < 1% | 19% | 45% | < 1% | 11% | 2% | 1% | 11% | 3% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 5% | < 1% | 2,316 |
Philosophy/reason | 2% | 21% | 13% | 1% | 3% | < 1% | 3% | 15% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 3% | 1% | 35% | 1% | 821 |
Common sense | 1% | 22% | 17% | 1% | 6% | < 1% | 2% | 15% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 31% | 1% | 3,205 |
Science | 1% | 25% | 9% | 3% | 4% | < 1% | 3% | 8% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 3% | < 1% | 39% | < 1% | 776 |
Don't know | 1% | 20% | 25% | < 1% | 9% | 1% | 1% | 13% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | 2% | 21% | 2% | 185 |
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