Religious tradition among adults who attend services seldom or never by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who attend services seldom or never by religious group
% of adults who attend services seldom or never who are…
Interpreting scripture | Buddhist | Catholic | Evangelical Protestant | Hindu | Historically Black Protestant | Jehovah's Witness | Jewish | Mainline Protestant | Mormon | Muslim | Orthodox Christian | Other Christian | Other Faiths | Other World Religions | Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | < 1% | 20% | 29% | < 1% | 7% | < 1% | 1% | 14% | 1% | 2% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 24% | < 1% | 1,107 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 21% | 22% | < 1% | 3% | < 1% | 2% | 20% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 27% | < 1% | 1,571 |
Word of God; other/don't know | < 1% | 19% | 24% | < 1% | 3% | < 1% | < 1% | 19% | 1% | 8% | < 1% | 3% | < 1% | < 1% | 23% | < 1% | 136 |
Not the word of God | 1% | 10% | 3% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 2% | 8% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 3% | < 1% | 68% | 1% | 6,844 |
Other/don't know | 1% | 15% | 6% | 1% | 2% | < 1% | 2% | 16% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | 5% | < 1% | 48% | 2% | 827 |
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