Racial and ethnic composition among who say common sense is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among who say common sense is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by race/ethnicity
% of who say common sense is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong who identify as…
Interpreting scripture | White | Black | Asian | Latino | Other/Mixed | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 53% | 24% | 3% | 17% | 3% | 2,689 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 72% | 10% | 3% | 12% | 3% | 4,115 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 66% | 8% | 4% | 20% | 3% | 271 |
Not the word of God | 74% | 6% | 4% | 11% | 4% | 6,607 |
Other/don't know | 69% | 9% | 5% | 13% | 5% | 1,301 |
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