Parent of children under 18 among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by parental status

% of adults who believe in God with absolute certainty who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
African Methodist Episcopal Church35%65%105
American Baptist Churches USA30%70%379
Assemblies of God35%65%421
Church of God in Christ35%65%153
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints42%58%558
Churches of Christ31%69%414
Episcopal Church19%81%279
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)22%78%456
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)31%69%720
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)35%65%181
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod23%77%375
National Baptist Convention27%73%427
Nondenominational charismatic33%67%173
Nondenominational evangelical39%61%624
Nondenominational fundamentalist25%75%100
Nothing in particular (religion important)33%67%1,142
Nothing in particular (religion not important)30%70%522
Presbyterian Church (USA)20%80%293
Presbyterian Church in America21%79%118
Seventh-day Adventist31%69%149
Southern Baptist Convention25%75%1,657
United Church of Christ21%79%132
United Methodist Church24%76%1,165
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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