Importance of religion in one's life among 18-29 year olds by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among 18-29 year olds by importance of religion
% of 18-29 year olds who say religion is…
Interpreting scripture | Very important | Somewhat important | Not too important | Not at all important | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 77% | 17% | 3% | 2% | < 1% | 1,078 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 56% | 35% | 7% | 2% | < 1% | 1,558 |
Not the word of God | 11% | 28% | 28% | 33% | < 1% | 2,502 |
Other/don't know | 31% | 39% | 20% | 8% | 2% | 312 |
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