Why the "There are so many interpretations of the Bible" claim is confused

[Ben Davis]

On top of the issue of 'errancy' in the bible, your position ignores the fact that many of those groups, based on different interpretations, have a history of violence towards others, using the interpretations as a pretext for that violence. These are not petty or trivial matters of distinction; people have died over them. These are not 'unified' groups, these are independently functioning cells of differing belief, not to be glossed over in an apologetic.

Care to put a number on that? Maybe one that cannot otherwise be more accurately attributed to geopolitical disputes?

That's a poor attempt at a dodge and you know it. Religions, where theocratic, are inextricably linked with politics. Many religions, the Abrahamic ones especially, are explicitly politico-cultural. Where the geopolitical disputes are an emergent property of religious doctrine or the result of the use of doctrine by a theocratic leader to achieve objectives, criticism of the religious aspects is wholly appropriate. Basically, you're side-tracking because I'm making a good point.

Do you accept the well-established fact that differences between religions, particularly different denominations within each of the Abrahamic religions, have been used as a pretext for violence, resulting in multiple deaths.