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% of adults who attend services seldom or never who say the holy scripture is…
State | Word of God; should be taken literally | Word of God; not everything taken literally | Word of God; other/don't know | Not the word of God | Other/don't know | Sample size |
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Alaska | 7% | 14% | 1% | 69% | 8% | 117 |
Arizona | 11% | 20% | < 1% | 53% | 15% | 219 |
California | 10% | 12% | 1% | 69% | 8% | 1,375 |
Colorado | 7% | 9% | 3% | 73% | 9% | 188 |
Connecticut | 6% | 16% | 3% | 67% | 9% | 130 |
Delaware | 7% | 17% | < 1% | 67% | 9% | 100 |
District of Columbia | 16% | 15% | < 1% | 64% | 5% | 112 |
Florida | 13% | 14% | 2% | 65% | 7% | 601 |
Georgia | 15% | 16% | 1% | 61% | 7% | 210 |
Hawaii | 18% | 8% | 2% | 62% | 10% | 121 |
Idaho | 9% | 13% | < 1% | 72% | 6% | 110 |
Illinois | 17% | 19% | 1% | 57% | 6% | 394 |
Indiana | 19% | 18% | 3% | 56% | 4% | 180 |
Kentucky | 20% | 16% | 2% | 58% | 4% | 113 |
Maine | 6% | 13% | < 1% | 66% | 16% | 136 |
Maryland | 10% | 17% | < 1% | 67% | 6% | 207 |
Massachusetts | 5% | 9% | 1% | 80% | 4% | 300 |
Michigan | 11% | 21% | 3% | 59% | 5% | 286 |
Minnesota | 6% | 13% | < 1% | 68% | 13% | 145 |
Missouri | 11% | 22% | 1% | 53% | 12% | 175 |
Montana | 11% | 15% | 2% | 61% | 11% | 118 |
Nevada | 9% | 11% | < 1% | 75% | 5% | 114 |
New Hampshire | 3% | 17% | 2% | 67% | 11% | 142 |
New Jersey | 7% | 15% | < 1% | 71% | 6% | 241 |
New Mexico | 8% | 24% | 2% | 60% | 7% | 105 |
New York | 10% | 13% | 1% | 68% | 7% | 680 |
North Carolina | 11% | 22% | < 1% | 62% | 5% | 237 |
Ohio | 18% | 21% | 2% | 50% | 9% | 307 |
Oregon | 7% | 16% | < 1% | 63% | 13% | 179 |
Pennsylvania | 16% | 16% | 1% | 61% | 6% | 375 |
South Carolina | 22% | 10% | 1% | 57% | 10% | 100 |
Tennessee | 24% | 19% | 2% | 44% | 11% | 138 |
Texas | 19% | 18% | 2% | 53% | 8% | 586 |
Vermont | 5% | 9% | 1% | 77% | 8% | 142 |
Virginia | 15% | 10% | 2% | 67% | 6% | 209 |
Washington | 6% | 15% | 2% | 71% | 6% | 268 |
Wisconsin | 11% | 13% | 2% | 67% | 6% | 175 |
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