• About one-third of American adults believe in the actual word of God and that it should be taken literally.
• According to the new survey, 54 percent of Americans who attend church weekly believe the Bible should be taken literally word for word.
  • The more seldom church attendees are less likely to hold that belief with only 30 percent of those who attend church monthly and 8 percent of those who never attend church believing in the actual word of God.
• Because church attendance is higher in the South, Southerners are most likely to believe in a literal Bible.
  • Those least likely to hold that belief are Americans in the West (22 percent).
    • Westerners are more likely to believe in the inspired word of God, but not literally so (50 percent).
• Forty percent of Protestants believe in a literal Bible while 48 percent of believe in the inspired word of God.
• Among other Christians, 45 percent believe the word of God is to be taken literally and 46 percent say the Bible is the inspired word of God.
  • Catholics are most likely to believe in the inspired word of God with 61 percent holding that belief and only 21 percent believing in a literal Bible.
• The survey further revealed that the higher level of education one gets, the less likely the individual is to believe that the Bible is the actual, literal word of God.
  • Those with a high school education or less are most likely to believe in a literal Bible (42 percent) compared to 20 percent of college graduates and 11 percent of post graduates.

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