Belief in God among whites by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among whites by belief in God
% of whites 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 | 93% | 5% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 6,057 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 76% | 21% | 2% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 7,125 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 88% | 8% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 1% | 661 |
Not the word of God | 24% | 29% | 12% | 1% | 29% | 5% | 9,276 |
Other/don't know | 56% | 25% | 5% | 2% | 4% | 7% | 1,781 |
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