Views about size of government 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 size of government
% of adults who believe in God with absolute certainty who would rather have…
Religious denomination | Smaller government; fewer services | Bigger government; more services | Depends | Don't know | Sample size |
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African Methodist Episcopal Church | 26% | 69% | < 1% | 5% | 105 |
American Baptist Churches USA | 42% | 54% | 1% | 3% | 379 |
Assemblies of God | 60% | 32% | 2% | 5% | 421 |
Church of God in Christ | 29% | 66% | 3% | 3% | 154 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 79% | 18% | 1% | 1% | 561 |
Churches of Christ | 60% | 34% | 3% | 4% | 414 |
Episcopal Church | 59% | 34% | 4% | 3% | 279 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 65% | 27% | 5% | 3% | 456 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 68% | 27% | 3% | 3% | 722 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 58% | 35% | 5% | 2% | 181 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 74% | 20% | 2% | 3% | 377 |
National Baptist Convention | 20% | 75% | 3% | 3% | 429 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 63% | 29% | 3% | 5% | 173 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 79% | 17% | 2% | 2% | 629 |
Nondenominational fundamentalist | 77% | 21% | 1% | < 1% | 100 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 45% | 49% | 3% | 3% | 1,145 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 50% | 40% | 3% | 7% | 525 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 57% | 35% | 2% | 5% | 294 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 73% | 26% | 1% | < 1% | 119 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 42% | 52% | 3% | 3% | 149 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 71% | 24% | 2% | 3% | 1,663 |
United Church of Christ | 43% | 48% | 4% | 4% | 132 |
United Methodist Church | 69% | 24% | 3% | 4% | 1,165 |
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