Political ideology among widowed adults by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among widowed adults by political ideology
% of widowed adults who are…
Interpreting scripture | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 49% | 29% | 13% | 9% | 1,234 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 40% | 41% | 14% | 5% | 850 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 34% | 27% | 22% | 16% | 138 |
Not the word of God | 26% | 35% | 32% | 7% | 693 |
Other/don't know | 32% | 37% | 22% | 8% | 303 |
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