Parent of children under 18 among who believe in Hell by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among who believe in Hell by parental status

% of who believe in Hell who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA32%68%370
Assemblies of God34%66%409
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)34%66%103
Church of God in Christ34%66%152
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints43%57%365
Churches of Christ33%67%415
Episcopal Church20%80%181
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)22%78%364
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)30%70%696
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)31%69%148
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod24%76%337
National Baptist Convention26%74%397
Nondenominational charismatic35%65%150
Nondenominational evangelical39%61%557
Nothing in particular (religion important)34%66%1,016
Nothing in particular (religion not important)31%69%529
Presbyterian Church (USA)20%80%208
Southern Baptist Convention25%75%1,588
United Methodist Church26%74%1,002
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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