Importance of religion in one's life among republicans and Republican leaners by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among republicans and Republican leaners by importance of religion
% of republicans and Republican leaners who say religion is…
Interpreting scripture | Very important | Somewhat important | Not too important | Not at all important | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 87% | 11% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 4,765 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 64% | 30% | 5% | 1% | < 1% | 4,660 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 86% | 10% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 459 |
Not the word of God | 18% | 34% | 25% | 22% | 1% | 3,024 |
Other/don't know | 46% | 34% | 13% | 6% | 1% | 823 |
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