Political ideology among who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by political ideology
% of who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong who are…
Interpreting scripture | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 60% | 22% | 11% | 7% | 6,154 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 50% | 33% | 12% | 5% | 3,819 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 50% | 25% | 9% | 16% | 538 |
Not the word of God | 30% | 31% | 32% | 7% | 703 |
Other/don't know | 37% | 29% | 21% | 13% | 540 |
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