Belief in God among adults who say religion is not too important by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who say religion is not too important by belief in God
% of adults who say religion is not too important who say they…
Interpreting scripture | Believe in God; absolutely certain | Believe in God; fairly certain | Believe in God; not too/not at all certain | Believe in God; don't know | Do not believe in God | Other/don't know if they believe in God | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 62% | 29% | 6% | 1% | 2% | < 1% | 139 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 36% | 48% | 9% | 1% | 5% | 1% | 444 |
Not the word of God | 13% | 33% | 22% | < 1% | 25% | 7% | 2,918 |
Other/don't know | 23% | 35% | 15% | 2% | 8% | 16% | 276 |
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