Sources of guidance on right and wrong 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 sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services who say they look to…most for guidance on right and wrong
Religious denomination | Religion | Philosophy/reason | Common sense | Science | Don't know | Sample size |
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American Baptist Churches USA | 47% | 5% | 44% | 4% | 1% | 231 |
Assemblies of God | 78% | 2% | 18% | 1% | 1% | 297 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 71% | 2% | 23% | 1% | 3% | 507 |
Churches of Christ | 58% | 6% | 34% | 1% | 1% | 304 |
Episcopal Church | 17% | 13% | 61% | 6% | 2% | 272 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 32% | 6% | 53% | 7% | 2% | 403 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 58% | 4% | 34% | 2% | 2% | 576 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 67% | 4% | 27% | 1% | 1% | 121 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 46% | 7% | 42% | 3% | 2% | 343 |
National Baptist Convention | 50% | 6% | 39% | 4% | < 1% | 109 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 73% | 2% | 23% | 1% | < 1% | 126 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 76% | 4% | 17% | 1% | 1% | 556 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 16% | 12% | 61% | 8% | 2% | 983 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 2% | 15% | 68% | 14% | 1% | 1,463 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 41% | 11% | 40% | 4% | 4% | 249 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 51% | 3% | 42% | 4% | 1% | 112 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 64% | 4% | 29% | 2% | 2% | 1,336 |
United Church of Christ | 21% | 8% | 65% | 7% | < 1% | 108 |
United Methodist Church | 40% | 7% | 47% | 4% | 2% | 1,115 |
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