Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults who say that right or wrong depends on the situation by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say that right or wrong depends on the situation by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults who say that right or wrong depends on the situation who say they look to…most for guidance on right and wrong
Religious denomination | Religion | Philosophy/reason | Common sense | Science | Don't know | Sample size |
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American Baptist Churches USA | 37% | 9% | 48% | 6% | < 1% | 303 |
Assemblies of God | 62% | 4% | 29% | 3% | 2% | 182 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 49% | 5% | 37% | 5% | 3% | 252 |
Churches of Christ | 41% | 9% | 46% | 3% | 1% | 244 |
Episcopal Church | 17% | 15% | 53% | 10% | 5% | 332 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 27% | 9% | 55% | 7% | 2% | 418 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 35% | 6% | 52% | 5% | 2% | 375 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 53% | 7% | 38% | 2% | 1% | 101 |
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.) | 20% | 21% | 52% | 7% | < 1% | 104 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 33% | 10% | 52% | 4% | 1% | 233 |
National Baptist Convention | 44% | 6% | 45% | 4% | 1% | 309 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 56% | 8% | 33% | 2% | < 1% | 201 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 16% | 14% | 57% | 11% | 2% | 1,407 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 2% | 16% | 64% | 16% | 1% | 2,343 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 30% | 14% | 44% | 8% | 4% | 279 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 48% | 5% | 43% | 2% | 2% | 813 |
Spiritual but not religious | 15% | 16% | 56% | 11% | 2% | 101 |
Unitarian | 5% | 27% | 44% | 22% | 3% | 134 |
United Church of Christ | 20% | 14% | 58% | 7% | 2% | 167 |
United Methodist Church | 31% | 9% | 52% | 5% | 2% | 986 |
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