Political ideology among adults who seldom or never read scripture by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who seldom or never read scripture by political ideology
% of adults who seldom or never read scripture who are…
Interpreting scripture | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 41% | 29% | 21% | 10% | 1,674 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 35% | 41% | 19% | 5% | 3,518 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 42% | 24% | 18% | 16% | 197 |
Not the word of God | 17% | 37% | 41% | 5% | 9,405 |
Other/don't know | 27% | 38% | 22% | 14% | 1,291 |
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