Belief in God among adults with a post-graduate degree by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults with a post-graduate degree by belief in God
% of adults with a post-graduate degree 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 | 94% | 6% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 786 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 80% | 18% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1,630 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 89% | 5% | < 1% | 2% | 1% | 3% | 131 |
Not the word of God | 23% | 28% | 14% | 1% | 29% | 6% | 2,876 |
Other/don't know | 54% | 28% | 5% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 474 |
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