Sources of guidance on right and wrong among non-parents by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among non-parents by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of non-parents who say they look to…most for guidance on right and wrong
Religious tradition | Religion | Philosophy/reason | Common sense | Science | Don't know | Sample size |
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Buddhist | 6% | 31% | 40% | 17% | 5% | 217 |
Catholic | 30% | 10% | 49% | 9% | 3% | 5,411 |
Evangelical Protestant | 60% | 5% | 30% | 3% | 2% | 6,385 |
Hindu | 5% | 23% | 48% | 22% | 2% | 115 |
Historically Black Protestant | 47% | 6% | 41% | 4% | 2% | 1,421 |
Jehovah's Witness | 79% | 1% | 12% | 3% | 5% | 182 |
Jewish | 14% | 16% | 53% | 14% | 3% | 661 |
Mainline Protestant | 30% | 10% | 51% | 6% | 3% | 4,844 |
Mormon | 62% | 4% | 24% | 6% | 3% | 419 |
Muslim | 35% | 14% | 32% | 14% | 6% | 147 |
Orthodox Christian | 25% | 15% | 51% | 6% | 3% | 137 |
Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | 6% | 19% | 56% | 17% | 2% | 5,788 |
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