Interpreting scripture among adults with a household income of $100,000 or more by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults with a household income of $100,000 or more by interpretation of scripture
% of adults with a household income of $100,000 or more who say the holy scripture is…
Religious denomination | 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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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 32% | 58% | 1% | 3% | 6% | 133 |
Episcopal Church | 2% | 39% | 1% | 50% | 8% | 172 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 11% | 44% | 1% | 40% | 4% | 149 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 54% | 31% | 3% | 7% | 4% | 107 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 42% | 42% | 5% | 8% | 4% | 161 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 10% | 27% | < 1% | 50% | 12% | 276 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 2% | 4% | < 1% | 90% | 5% | 693 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 8% | 46% | 3% | 32% | 11% | 139 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 56% | 29% | 3% | 9% | 2% | 299 |
United Methodist Church | 16% | 43% | 3% | 30% | 8% | 392 |
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