Religious tradition among adults who say that right or wrong depends on the situation by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who say that right or wrong depends on the situation by religious group
% of adults who say that right or wrong depends on the situation who are…
Interpreting scripture | 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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Word of God; should be taken literally | < 1% | 22% | 34% | < 1% | 16% | 1% | 1% | 13% | 1% | 2% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 9% | < 1% | 4,678 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 29% | 25% | 1% | 7% | 1% | 2% | 21% | 2% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 11% | < 1% | 5,677 |
Word of God; other/don't know | < 1% | 27% | 30% | < 1% | 7% | 1% | 2% | 17% | 2% | 5% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 7% | < 1% | 458 |
Not the word of God | 1% | 17% | 5% | 1% | 2% | < 1% | 3% | 12% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 4% | 1% | 51% | 1% | 9,422 |
Other/don't know | 1% | 23% | 14% | 1% | 5% | < 1% | 2% | 19% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 25% | 2% | 1,720 |
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