Religious tradition among adults in the Philadelphia metro area by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults in the Philadelphia metro area by religious group
% of adults in the Philadelphia metro area 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% | 19% | 23% | 1% | 22% | 1% | 2% | 19% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 8% | < 1% | 133 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 1% | 35% | 18% | 1% | 13% | < 1% | 3% | 22% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 6% | < 1% | 218 |
Not the word of God | 1% | 25% | 4% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | 4% | 13% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 2% | 1% | 45% | 1% | 306 |
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