Views about government aid to the poor among adults who attend services weekly or more by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who attend services weekly or more by views about government aid to the poor
% of adults who attend services weekly or more who say government aid to the poor…
Interpreting scripture | Does more harm than good | Does more good than harm | Neither/both equally | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 51% | 43% | 4% | 2% | 6,198 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 51% | 44% | 4% | 1% | 4,409 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 49% | 32% | 10% | 8% | 582 |
Not the word of God | 35% | 60% | 4% | 1% | 1,236 |
Other/don't know | 36% | 50% | 9% | 5% | 730 |
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