Every breath you make every step you take is based on faith, in your case simply subconscious faith, that you will remember to press the crossing button so that you cross the road safely. Everything we do is faith based.
So, a repeat of the faith definitions is needed again. The word "faith" is misused most of the time. There are two main definitions and most dictionaries will show this. They are quite distinct and cannot be meaningfully interchanged.
1. Faith - used mainly in an inductive manner to mean trust. E.g. I trust my doctor, I trust this chair won't collapse when I sit down, etc. This form of faith is always based on evidence - inductive logic. It is a statistical process - where something has been repeated so often that there is a strong possibility it will occur again. My doctor has certificates, and has been referred to me because of his past good advice, etc. In every case this form of faith/trust is based on some form of identifiable evidence, although in every statistical probability scenario there is always a chance that something might fail - e.g. my doctor made a rare mistake, the chair was very old and did collapse, etc. But most of the time these things do not go wrong and we simply live as if they never go wrong and are very surprised when they do fail.
2. Faith, as in religious faith - this is the conviction that something is true beyond doubt - without any form of evidence.
What the religionists usually try to do, and what you are doing here is to mix the two definitions as if they are interchangeable. When I refer to "faith" in these discussions I usually prefix it with "religious", to highlight the specific distinction.
But yes in every day life we place this form of faith (inductive trust) in almost everything we do. It is nothing similar to a religious belief, and you are quite wrong to assert that everyone is using your type of religious faith in their everyday lives.
Once you understand that there is indeed someone more intelligent than you, it is a start. Once you believe in something much bigger then anything you could imagine then anything becomes possible.
Perhaps, but there remains no evidence that anything like that exists or might exist and it makes no sense to imagine there is something and then create a fantasy about what that thing might want from us and how we should treat it.
I argue with God quite a bit, but He never lets me down.
Not quite, you argue with a personal fantasy, and then rationalize (make something inherently irrational appear rational), so you can continue to feel content with the delusion.
