Importance of religion in one's life among adults who seldom or never feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who seldom or never feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing by importance of religion
% of adults who seldom or never feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing 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 | 54% | 34% | 7% | 4% | 1% | 598 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 28% | 50% | 17% | 5% | < 1% | 958 |
Not the word of God | 6% | 23% | 30% | 41% | < 1% | 3,220 |
Other/don't know | 20% | 38% | 22% | 20% | 1% | 424 |
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