Importance of religion in one's life among Christians by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among Christians by importance of religion
% of Christians 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 | 88% | 11% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 9,031 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 66% | 30% | 3% | 1% | < 1% | 8,437 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 84% | 13% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 889 |
Not the word of God | 30% | 45% | 19% | 6% | 1% | 4,891 |
Other/don't know | 58% | 32% | 7% | 2% | 2% | 1,800 |
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