Question about "faith"

[Belacqua]

Please show how you can do the same thing with your god? Show them how trusting that the chair will hold them up, is even in the same ballpark as trusting that your god exists.

When tackattack says that he has faith of this kind, he's talking about his own mental disposition. He trusts God in the way he trusts a good chair. This is what is happening in his mind.

To say that he can't prove the existence of God to your satisfaction doesn't change what his mental disposition is. 

You no doubt believe that he shouldn't trust in God the way he trusts in a chair, but you can't say the trust is different. He knows what's happening in his mind, and you don't.

They [my senses] have shown to be reliable. 

I have never been presented with a god in the same way that I have been presented with my memories, reason or senses.

Right, according to the common definition, you have faith in your senses. And while we all know that the senses can be fooled, we don't worry about that when we're going about our daily business. We don't have to have a scientist confirm for us that the pavement isn't an illusion. 

The fact that some people feel that God has been adequately demonstrated, and you don't, doesn't mean that the word "faith" doesn't apply to what they feel.