Interpreting scripture among adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services by frequency of reading scripture (2014) Switch to: Frequency of reading scripture among adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services by interpretation of scripture
% of adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services who say the holy scripture is…
Frequency of reading scripture | Word of God; should be taken literally | Word of God; not everything taken literally | Word of God; other/don't know | Not the word of God | Other/don't know | Sample size |
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At least once a week | 54% | 31% | 4% | 7% | 4% | 7,326 |
Once or twice a month | 31% | 40% | 3% | 18% | 8% | 1,900 |
Several times a year | 20% | 39% | 2% | 32% | 7% | 1,593 |
Seldom/never | 10% | 26% | 1% | 55% | 8% | 8,232 |
Don't know | 33% | 20% | 6% | 20% | 20% | 135 |
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