Views about government aid to the poor among adults who attend prayer groups at least once a week by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who attend prayer groups at least once a week by views about government aid to the poor
% of adults who attend prayer groups at least once a week 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 | 50% | 44% | 4% | 2% | 4,764 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 51% | 44% | 4% | 1% | 2,435 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 47% | 34% | 11% | 7% | 410 |
Not the word of God | 36% | 58% | 3% | 3% | 567 |
Other/don't know | 32% | 52% | 13% | 3% | 415 |
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