Belief in God among the Unaffiliated by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among the Unaffiliated by belief in God
% of the Unaffiliated who say they…
Interpreting scripture | Believe in God; absolutely certain | Believe in God; fairly certain | Believe in God; not too/not at all certain | Believe in God; don't know | Do not believe in God | Other/don't know if they believe in God | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 73% | 20% | 5% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 546 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 56% | 31% | 7% | < 1% | 4% | 1% | 713 |
Not the word of God | 15% | 21% | 13% | < 1% | 44% | 7% | 5,713 |
Other/don't know | 38% | 25% | 7% | 1% | 15% | 12% | 529 |
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