Political ideology among adults who say religion is very important by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who say religion is very important by political ideology
% of adults who say religion is very important who are…
Interpreting scripture | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 55% | 24% | 14% | 7% | 8,472 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 45% | 35% | 15% | 5% | 6,158 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 48% | 25% | 10% | 17% | 816 |
Not the word of God | 25% | 35% | 34% | 5% | 2,020 |
Other/don't know | 32% | 35% | 20% | 13% | 1,259 |
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