Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults in the Greatest generation by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults in the Greatest generation by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults in the Greatest generation 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 | 58% | 5% | 31% | 4% | 2% | 215 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 38% | 3% | 51% | 5% | 4% | 137 |
Not the word of God | 11% | 15% | 52% | 16% | 6% | 133 |
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