Religious tradition among adults who seldom or never pray by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who seldom or never pray by religious group
% of adults who seldom or never pray 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% | 25% | 18% | < 1% | 8% | < 1% | 2% | 14% | 1% | 3% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 28% | < 1% | 356 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 28% | 14% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 3% | 19% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 30% | < 1% | 789 |
Not the word of God | 1% | 8% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 4% | 8% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 3% | < 1% | 71% | 1% | 6,428 |
Other/don't know | 1% | 15% | 4% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 4% | 13% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 3% | 1% | 53% | 2% | 515 |
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