Interpreting scripture among adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services by interpretation of scripture
% of adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services 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 | 45% | 30% | 6% | 14% | 5% | 231 |
Assemblies of God | 71% | 21% | 2% | 4% | 2% | 297 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 30% | 60% | 5% | 3% | 2% | 507 |
Churches of Christ | 48% | 37% | 4% | 8% | 3% | 304 |
Episcopal Church | 8% | 39% | 1% | 44% | 8% | 272 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 21% | 45% | 2% | 26% | 7% | 403 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 58% | 25% | 2% | 10% | 4% | 576 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 52% | 34% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 121 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 43% | 40% | 4% | 10% | 4% | 343 |
National Baptist Convention | 57% | 30% | 1% | 8% | 3% | 109 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 54% | 36% | 4% | 4% | 1% | 126 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 54% | 36% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 556 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 16% | 27% | 1% | 46% | 9% | 983 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 3% | 9% | < 1% | 80% | 7% | 1,463 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 27% | 42% | 2% | 22% | 7% | 249 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 31% | 41% | 7% | 16% | 4% | 112 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 63% | 22% | 4% | 8% | 3% | 1,336 |
United Church of Christ | 5% | 48% | 1% | 34% | 12% | 108 |
United Methodist Church | 28% | 43% | 3% | 19% | 8% | 1,115 |
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