Importance of religion in one's life among who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by importance of religion
% of who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong 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 | 93% | 6% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 6,154 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 85% | 13% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 3,819 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 90% | 8% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 538 |
Not the word of God | 57% | 30% | 8% | 4% | 1% | 703 |
Other/don't know | 82% | 12% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 540 |
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