Belief in God among adults who say that government aid to the poor does more harm than good by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who say that government aid to the poor does more harm than good by belief in God
% of adults who say that government aid to the poor does more harm than good 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 | 90% | 8% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 5,232 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 77% | 20% | 2% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 4,885 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 86% | 11% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 1% | 467 |
Not the word of God | 31% | 31% | 12% | 1% | 21% | 5% | 4,020 |
Other/don't know | 63% | 22% | 3% | 2% | 4% | 6% | 987 |
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