Educational distribution among adults who say religion is somewhat important by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who say religion is somewhat important by educational group
% of adults who say religion is somewhat important who have completed…
Interpreting scripture | High school or less | Some college | College | Post-graduate degree | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 64% | 27% | 7% | 3% | 1,048 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 43% | 32% | 17% | 8% | 2,764 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 53% | 34% | 9% | 4% | 119 |
Not the word of God | 32% | 31% | 22% | 15% | 3,549 |
Other/don't know | 34% | 38% | 17% | 11% | 790 |
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