Importance of religion in one's life among college graduates by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among college graduates by importance of religion
% of college graduates 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 | 90% | 8% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1,685 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 66% | 29% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 2,545 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 87% | 9% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 211 |
Not the word of God | 13% | 30% | 26% | 31% | 1% | 3,729 |
Other/don't know | 46% | 33% | 13% | 6% | 2% | 628 |
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