Belief in absolute standards for right and wrong among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by belief in existence of standards for right and wrong
% of adults who believe in God with absolute certainty who say…
Religious denomination | There are clear standards for what is right and wrong | Right or wrong depends on the situation | Neither/both equally | Don't know | Sample size |
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African Methodist Episcopal Church | 36% | 60% | 1% | 3% | 105 |
American Baptist Churches USA | 34% | 64% | 1% | 1% | 379 |
Assemblies of God | 56% | 40% | 2% | 2% | 421 |
Church of God in Christ | 39% | 57% | 1% | 2% | 154 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 61% | 37% | 2% | < 1% | 561 |
Churches of Christ | 46% | 51% | 1% | 1% | 414 |
Episcopal Church | 31% | 68% | 2% | < 1% | 279 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 32% | 66% | 2% | < 1% | 456 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 53% | 45% | 1% | 1% | 722 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 52% | 46% | 2% | < 1% | 181 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 47% | 51% | 1% | < 1% | 377 |
National Baptist Convention | 30% | 67% | 2% | 1% | 429 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 47% | 51% | 1% | < 1% | 173 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 71% | 28% | 1% | < 1% | 629 |
Nondenominational fundamentalist | 59% | 38% | 2% | < 1% | 100 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 28% | 68% | 2% | 2% | 1,145 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 21% | 76% | 1% | 2% | 525 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 35% | 62% | 2% | 2% | 294 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 45% | 51% | 2% | 2% | 119 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 46% | 53% | < 1% | < 1% | 149 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 53% | 44% | 2% | 1% | 1,663 |
United Church of Christ | 26% | 72% | 1% | 1% | 132 |
United Methodist Church | 40% | 58% | 1% | 1% | 1,165 |
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