Religious tradition 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 religious group
% of adults who seldom or never attend prayer groups 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% | 27% | 33% | < 1% | 9% | < 1% | 1% | 14% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 13% | < 1% | 2,862 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 32% | 23% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | 1% | 22% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 14% | < 1% | 4,941 |
Word of God; other/don't know | < 1% | 29% | 28% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | < 1% | 19% | 1% | 4% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 11% | < 1% | 373 |
Not the word of God | 1% | 17% | 5% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 3% | 12% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 3% | < 1% | 54% | 1% | 10,512 |
Other/don't know | 1% | 23% | 11% | 1% | 4% | < 1% | 2% | 19% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 3% | < 1% | 31% | 1% | 1,707 |
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