Views about government aid to the poor among who say common sense is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among who say common sense is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by views about government aid to the poor
% of who say common sense is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong 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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American Baptist Churches USA | 46% | 46% | 6% | 3% | 210 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 60% | 38% | 2% | < 1% | 155 |
Churches of Christ | 48% | 48% | 2% | 2% | 161 |
Episcopal Church | 47% | 45% | 4% | 3% | 249 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 50% | 43% | 6% | 1% | 317 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 55% | 44% | 1% | < 1% | 265 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 63% | 35% | 1% | 1% | 184 |
National Baptist Convention | 27% | 65% | 4% | 4% | 176 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 59% | 39% | 1% | 1% | 131 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 45% | 50% | 3% | 2% | 1,127 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 44% | 50% | 4% | 2% | 1,810 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 35% | 60% | 1% | 4% | 165 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 58% | 37% | 4% | 2% | 543 |
United Church of Christ | 44% | 53% | 3% | < 1% | 119 |
United Methodist Church | 54% | 42% | 3% | 1% | 745 |
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