Belief in Hell among adults who say religion is very important by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who say religion is very important by belief in hell
% of adults who say religion is very important who …in hell
Interpreting scripture | Believe | Don't believe | Other/don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 83% | 11% | 6% | 8,472 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 73% | 20% | 7% | 6,158 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 72% | 12% | 16% | 816 |
Not the word of God | 47% | 45% | 8% | 2,020 |
Other/don't know | 57% | 25% | 19% | 1,259 |
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