Religious tradition among moderates by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among moderates by religious group
% of moderates 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% | 18% | 38% | 1% | 15% | 1% | 1% | 14% | 2% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 8% | < 1% | 2,367 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 29% | 25% | < 1% | 6% | 1% | 2% | 21% | 2% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 10% | < 1% | 3,604 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 1% | 21% | 37% | < 1% | 6% | 1% | 1% | 17% | 3% | 7% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 6% | < 1% | 261 |
Not the word of God | 1% | 19% | 6% | 1% | 2% | < 1% | 3% | 13% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 3% | < 1% | 48% | 1% | 4,464 |
Other/don't know | 1% | 24% | 14% | 1% | 5% | < 1% | 2% | 21% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 3% | 1% | 24% | 1% | 957 |
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