Interpreting scripture among adults who say that stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say that stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost by interpretation of scripture
% of adults who say that stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost 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 | 49% | 33% | 3% | 9% | 5% | 242 |
Assemblies of God | 68% | 27% | 2% | 3% | 1% | 198 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 32% | 55% | 2% | 7% | 4% | 253 |
Churches of Christ | 41% | 38% | 3% | 14% | 5% | 221 |
Episcopal Church | 9% | 30% | < 1% | 53% | 8% | 337 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 17% | 43% | 1% | 32% | 8% | 385 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 42% | 37% | 4% | 13% | 5% | 333 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 43% | 38% | 4% | 11% | 4% | 128 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 33% | 48% | 2% | 12% | 5% | 199 |
National Baptist Convention | 61% | 24% | 2% | 8% | 6% | 302 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 46% | 40% | 4% | 6% | 3% | 286 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 21% | 24% | 1% | 45% | 10% | 1,141 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 3% | 8% | < 1% | 83% | 6% | 2,080 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 16% | 39% | 3% | 31% | 11% | 250 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 54% | 29% | 3% | 10% | 3% | 773 |
Unitarian | < 1% | 3% | < 1% | 89% | 8% | 142 |
United Church of Christ | 9% | 29% | 1% | 46% | 15% | 174 |
United Methodist Church | 22% | 44% | 2% | 25% | 8% | 873 |
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