Interpreting scripture among parents by importance of religion (2014) Switch to: Importance of religion in one's life among parents by interpretation of scripture
% of parents who say the holy scripture is…
Importance of religion in one's life | Word of God; should be taken literally | Word of God; not everything taken literally | Word of God; other/don't know | Not the word of God | Other/don't know | Sample size |
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Very important | 49% | 33% | 4% | 9% | 5% | 4,619 |
Somewhat important | 15% | 33% | 1% | 40% | 10% | 2,106 |
Not too important | 5% | 14% | < 1% | 71% | 9% | 829 |
Not at all important | 2% | 5% | < 1% | 88% | 5% | 771 |
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