Religious tradition among adults in Ohio by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults in Ohio by religious group
% of adults in Ohio 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% | 11% | 48% | 1% | 13% | 1% | < 1% | 16% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 10% | < 1% | 336 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 29% | 29% | < 1% | 5% | 1% | < 1% | 22% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 10% | < 1% | 366 |
Not the word of God | 1% | 14% | 7% | < 1% | 3% | 1% | 2% | 13% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 5% | < 1% | 51% | 1% | 314 |
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