Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults who say religion is very important by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say religion is very important by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults who say religion is very important 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 | 51% | 5% | 40% | 3% | 1% | 338 |
Assemblies of God | 80% | 2% | 16% | 1% | 1% | 408 |
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | 74% | 3% | 20% | 3% | < 1% | 101 |
Church of God in Christ | 66% | 2% | 28% | 1% | 3% | 144 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 75% | 1% | 17% | 3% | 3% | 543 |
Churches of Christ | 66% | 4% | 26% | 2% | 2% | 374 |
Episcopal Church | 31% | 11% | 46% | 9% | 4% | 244 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 45% | 5% | 44% | 2% | 4% | 408 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 65% | 4% | 27% | 2% | 2% | 631 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 70% | 4% | 24% | 1% | 1% | 167 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 56% | 6% | 34% | 2% | 2% | 316 |
National Baptist Convention | 54% | 5% | 37% | 3% | 1% | 427 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 78% | 3% | 17% | 2% | 1% | 151 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 82% | 3% | 14% | 1% | 1% | 581 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 33% | 12% | 45% | 6% | 4% | 753 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 53% | 9% | 29% | 4% | 5% | 269 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 55% | 6% | 33% | 4% | 2% | 106 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 73% | 4% | 20% | 1% | 2% | 140 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 70% | 3% | 23% | 2% | 2% | 1,516 |
United Church of Christ | 27% | 11% | 54% | 6% | 2% | 128 |
United Methodist Church | 54% | 7% | 34% | 3% | 2% | 1,021 |
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