Religious tradition 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 religious group
% of adults who say religion is very important who are…
Interpreting scripture | Buddhist | Catholic | Evangelical Protestant | Hindu | Historically Black Protestant | Jehovah's Witness | Jewish | Mainline Protestant | Mormon | Muslim | Orthodox Christian | Other Christian | Other Faiths | Other World Religions | Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | < 1% | 16% | 49% | < 1% | 14% | 1% | 1% | 11% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | 8,472 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 29% | 31% | < 1% | 7% | 2% | 1% | 18% | 5% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | 6,158 |
Word of God; other/don't know | < 1% | 21% | 41% | < 1% | 7% | 3% | 1% | 15% | 3% | 3% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 4% | 1% | 816 |
Not the word of God | 3% | 32% | 14% | 1% | 6% | < 1% | 3% | 18% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 2% | 5% | 1% | 13% | 1% | 2,020 |
Other/don't know | 1% | 27% | 22% | < 1% | 9% | 1% | 2% | 21% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 9% | 1% | 1,259 |
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