Interpreting scripture among republicans and Republican leaners by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among republicans and Republican leaners by interpretation of scripture
% of republicans and Republican 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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American Baptist Churches USA | 53% | 30% | 3% | 10% | 5% | 205 |
Assemblies of God | 75% | 18% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 288 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 30% | 60% | 5% | 3% | 2% | 467 |
Churches of Christ | 50% | 37% | 4% | 7% | 2% | 250 |
Episcopal Church | 15% | 39% | 1% | 39% | 7% | 192 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 19% | 49% | 2% | 25% | 6% | 280 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 61% | 26% | 3% | 7% | 2% | 516 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 44% | 40% | 3% | 9% | 3% | 289 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 60% | 29% | 7% | 4% | < 1% | 110 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 56% | 36% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 486 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 23% | 28% | 1% | 40% | 8% | 562 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 6% | 10% | 1% | 75% | 8% | 721 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 31% | 40% | 4% | 18% | 7% | 194 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 64% | 23% | 4% | 6% | 2% | 1,208 |
United Methodist Church | 32% | 43% | 4% | 14% | 7% | 889 |
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