Interpreting scripture among democrats and Democratic leaners by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among democrats and Democratic leaners by interpretation of scripture
% of democrats and Democratic leaners 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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African Methodist Episcopal Church | 55% | 25% | 5% | 12% | 3% | 107 |
American Baptist Churches USA | 55% | 27% | 4% | 10% | 5% | 198 |
Assemblies of God | 62% | 26% | 2% | 5% | 5% | 104 |
Church of God in Christ | 71% | 21% | 3% | 4% | 1% | 126 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 34% | 41% | 3% | 16% | 7% | 104 |
Churches of Christ | 46% | 31% | 3% | 15% | 5% | 191 |
Episcopal Church | 6% | 29% | < 1% | 55% | 9% | 254 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 20% | 38% | < 1% | 34% | 8% | 296 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 40% | 34% | 2% | 18% | 6% | 205 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 37% | 36% | 5% | 15% | 7% | 118 |
National Baptist Convention | 65% | 20% | 2% | 8% | 6% | 409 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 44% | 38% | 5% | 9% | 4% | 121 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 24% | 22% | 1% | 45% | 9% | 906 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 3% | 7% | < 1% | 84% | 6% | 1,650 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 18% | 38% | 1% | 30% | 12% | 195 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 55% | 27% | 2% | 10% | 5% | 460 |
Unitarian | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 90% | 7% | 142 |
United Church of Christ | 17% | 22% | < 1% | 42% | 18% | 138 |
United Methodist Church | 20% | 41% | 1% | 31% | 7% | 594 |
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