Importance of religion in one's life among independents and those who don't lean to either party by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among independents and those who don't lean to either party by importance of religion
% of independents and those who don't lean to either party 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 | 81% | 14% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 1,619 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 58% | 33% | 6% | 3% | 1% | 1,314 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 78% | 18% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 251 |
Not the word of God | 18% | 29% | 22% | 30% | 1% | 1,798 |
Other/don't know | 42% | 32% | 13% | 9% | 4% | 676 |
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