Importance of religion in one's life among adults who attend services monthly or yearly by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who attend services monthly or yearly by importance of religion
% of adults who attend services monthly or yearly who say religion is…
Interpreting scripture | Very important | Somewhat important | Not too important | Not at all important | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 74% | 23% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | 2,447 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 47% | 46% | 5% | 1% | < 1% | 3,532 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 77% | 20% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 243 |
Not the word of God | 20% | 47% | 24% | 8% | < 1% | 4,020 |
Other/don't know | 43% | 43% | 10% | 2% | 1% | 972 |
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