Belief in God among adults who attend services seldom or never by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who attend services seldom or never by belief in God
% of adults who attend services seldom or never who say they…
Interpreting scripture | Believe in God; absolutely certain | Believe in God; fairly certain | Believe in God; not too/not at all certain | Believe in God; don't know | Do not believe in God | Other/don't know if they believe in God | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 77% | 17% | 4% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1,107 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 64% | 29% | 4% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 1,571 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 72% | 20% | 1% | 4% | 1% | 2% | 136 |
Not the word of God | 19% | 24% | 13% | < 1% | 37% | 6% | 6,844 |
Other/don't know | 44% | 25% | 8% | 3% | 11% | 10% | 827 |
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