Views about government aid to the poor 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 views about government aid to the poor
% of adults who believe in God with absolute certainty who say government aid to the poor…
Religious denomination | Does more harm than good | Does more good than harm | Neither/both equally | Don't know | Sample size |
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African Methodist Episcopal Church | 28% | 62% | 7% | 3% | 105 |
American Baptist Churches USA | 42% | 50% | 5% | 2% | 379 |
Assemblies of God | 55% | 40% | 2% | 3% | 421 |
Church of God in Christ | 37% | 55% | 6% | 2% | 154 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 68% | 28% | 3% | 1% | 561 |
Churches of Christ | 50% | 45% | 3% | 2% | 414 |
Episcopal Church | 46% | 49% | 4% | 1% | 279 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 49% | 44% | 6% | 1% | 456 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 56% | 37% | 4% | 2% | 722 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 47% | 49% | 4% | < 1% | 181 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 64% | 32% | 2% | 2% | 377 |
National Baptist Convention | 24% | 69% | 4% | 3% | 429 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 65% | 31% | 3% | 1% | 173 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 65% | 30% | 4% | 1% | 629 |
Nondenominational fundamentalist | 68% | 28% | 4% | < 1% | 100 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 42% | 51% | 4% | 2% | 1,145 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 41% | 49% | 7% | 4% | 525 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 42% | 51% | 3% | 4% | 294 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 62% | 35% | 3% | 1% | 119 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 33% | 60% | 5% | 1% | 149 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 64% | 32% | 3% | 2% | 1,663 |
United Church of Christ | 42% | 50% | 5% | 3% | 132 |
United Methodist Church | 57% | 38% | 3% | 2% | 1,165 |
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