Interpreting scripture among whites by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among whites by interpretation of scripture
% of whites 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 | 51% | 28% | 5% | 11% | 5% | 352 |
Assemblies of God | 70% | 20% | 2% | 4% | 4% | 321 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 28% | 58% | 5% | 5% | 4% | 555 |
Churches of Christ | 48% | 35% | 4% | 8% | 4% | 355 |
Episcopal Church | 9% | 35% | 1% | 47% | 9% | 443 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 19% | 44% | 2% | 29% | 7% | 609 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 54% | 27% | 3% | 12% | 4% | 713 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 44% | 42% | 3% | 8% | 3% | 124 |
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.) | 12% | 29% | < 1% | 38% | 21% | 102 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 40% | 42% | 4% | 11% | 4% | 426 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 50% | 36% | 8% | 5% | < 1% | 118 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 53% | 36% | 4% | 3% | 4% | 532 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 19% | 27% | 2% | 42% | 10% | 1,147 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 3% | 8% | < 1% | 82% | 7% | 2,247 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 22% | 41% | 2% | 26% | 9% | 384 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 34% | 42% | 7% | 13% | 4% | 129 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 62% | 24% | 4% | 7% | 3% | 1,553 |
Unitarian | 1% | 6% | < 1% | 86% | 8% | 148 |
United Church of Christ | 9% | 33% | 1% | 42% | 15% | 206 |
United Methodist Church | 27% | 42% | 3% | 21% | 8% | 1,532 |
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