Importance of religion in one's life among adults with a post-graduate degree by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults with a post-graduate degree by importance of religion
% of adults with a post-graduate degree 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 | 91% | 7% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 786 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 72% | 23% | 4% | < 1% | < 1% | 1,630 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 89% | 7% | 3% | < 1% | 1% | 131 |
Not the word of God | 16% | 29% | 25% | 30% | 1% | 2,876 |
Other/don't know | 50% | 31% | 10% | 7% | 2% | 474 |
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