Importance of religion in one's life among blacks by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among blacks by importance of religion
% of blacks 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 | 89% | 8% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1,668 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 75% | 19% | 3% | 3% | < 1% | 828 |
Not the word of God | 31% | 35% | 17% | 17% | < 1% | 578 |
Other/don't know | 67% | 20% | 7% | 3% | 3% | 221 |
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