Educational distribution among Mainline Protestants who believe in Hell by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among Mainline Protestants who believe in Hell by educational group

% of Mainline Protestants who believe in Hell who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA62%27%6%4%370
Episcopal Church20%40%22%17%180
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)33%36%20%12%361
Presbyterian Church (USA)36%29%21%14%207
United Methodist Church34%33%21%11%998
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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