Interpreting scripture among adults with a household income of $50,000-$99,999 by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults with a household income of $50,000-$99,999 by interpretation of scripture
% of adults with a household income of $50,000-$99,999 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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Assemblies of God | 79% | 14% | < 1% | 4% | 3% | 100 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 24% | 59% | 9% | 7% | 1% | 195 |
Churches of Christ | 43% | 44% | 3% | 8% | 3% | 112 |
Episcopal Church | 7% | 30% | < 1% | 53% | 10% | 136 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 13% | 45% | < 1% | 30% | 12% | 184 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 52% | 34% | 1% | 11% | 3% | 206 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 34% | 49% | 3% | 8% | 7% | 124 |
National Baptist Convention | 51% | 39% | 1% | 5% | 4% | 108 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 58% | 33% | 5% | 4% | 1% | 215 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 16% | 28% | 1% | 51% | 6% | 398 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 2% | 7% | < 1% | 85% | 6% | 765 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 22% | 38% | 1% | 31% | 8% | 110 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 60% | 25% | 3% | 9% | 4% | 497 |
United Methodist Church | 26% | 44% | 1% | 21% | 8% | 463 |
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