Frequency of feeling spiritual peace and wellbeing among conservatives by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among conservatives by frequency of feelings of spiritual wellbeing
% of conservatives who feel a sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing…
Interpreting scripture | At least once a week | Once or twice a month | Several times a year | Seldom/never | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 80% | 10% | 5% | 5% | 1% | 5,555 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 64% | 17% | 8% | 10% | 1% | 4,053 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 77% | 9% | 7% | 5% | 3% | 482 |
Not the word of God | 41% | 17% | 12% | 29% | 1% | 2,107 |
Other/don't know | 58% | 12% | 8% | 18% | 4% | 738 |
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