Views about size of government among methodists in the Mainline Tradition by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among methodists in the Mainline Tradition by views about size of government
% of methodists in the Mainline Tradition who would rather have…
Interpreting scripture | Smaller government; fewer services | Bigger government; more services | Depends | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 67% | 26% | 2% | 4% | 411 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 68% | 27% | 1% | 4% | 716 |
Not the word of God | 64% | 32% | 2% | 2% | 404 |
Other/don't know | 64% | 20% | 11% | 6% | 157 |
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