Racial and ethnic composition among adults who say their holy scripture is not the word of God, but written by men by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among adults who say their holy scripture is not the word of God, but written by men by race/ethnicity

% of adults who say their holy scripture is not the word of God, but written by men who identify as…

Religious traditionWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
Buddhist51%4%26%14%5%200
Catholic64%2%3%30%1%2,048
Evangelical Protestant76%5%1%11%7%627
Hindu3%< 1%94%1%2%119
Historically Black Protestant< 1%94%< 1%4%2%177
Jewish94%< 1%1%2%2%508
Mainline Protestant90%2%1%4%3%1,818
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")73%6%6%11%4%5,629
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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