Importance of religion in one's life among adults who seldom or never attend prayer groups by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who seldom or never attend prayer groups by importance of religion
% of adults who seldom or never attend prayer groups 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 | 68% | 26% | 4% | 2% | < 1% | 2,862 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 45% | 43% | 9% | 3% | < 1% | 4,941 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 69% | 25% | 3% | 1% | 2% | 373 |
Not the word of God | 11% | 29% | 27% | 33% | 1% | 10,512 |
Other/don't know | 35% | 37% | 16% | 10% | 2% | 1,707 |
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