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Like everybody who tries to make sense of "faith," you're equivocating.

&gt;So you can have faith in a friend that they'll help you when your in need (even though it didn't happen yet so you have no way of knowing)

Presumably you know your friend. You've learned whether he's the type of person who would help you when you're in need. If he never has before, and he doesn't seem like the type to help people, you certainly *wouldn't* have faith that he would help you. The fact that you've seen him help you and others would be the evidence-based *reason* you'd expect that he would help you.

&gt;Or you can have faith that atoms make up everything (you know some of the facts but there is still a lot of quantum physics behind the atom that we don't understand/know all the answers to)

Again, this is evidence-based. If we find something else going on, we'd stop thinking that due to the *new evidence.*

&gt; So when people have faith it isnt that they "have no reason to believe" but rather its a way to say "Some things point to my religion but there is a lot of things that don't make all that much sense as of right now, but it's okay because I will find out eventually and I don't need to know all of right now"

No evidence points to any religion being right. And if they believed on evidence, they could just call it evidence, and not say, "It's just faith." In fact, "God won't prove himself to everyone because he wants us to believe on faith" is pretty much the go-to excuse every time somebody points out that there's no evidence for their religion.

There is absolutely no evidence that a god created the universe in 6 days and punished people for sinning and sent an avatar of himself to Earth so he could sacrifice himself to himself as vicarious punishment for what the humans did. It is completely without any sort of reasonable backing whatsoever, that's why they call it "faith."

&gt;That's why it's sometimes silly to think that if a pastor or priest can't answer all my questions

No pastor or priest can make sense of vicarious punishment, the very core of Christianity. If a murderer killed your family and got away never to be caught and so he couldn't be punished, would you think, "Well *somebody* has to go to prison for it, so I'll send *myself* to prison so that justice is done!" No, that makes absolutely no sense. You have to have the sort of "faith" that means "completely dismissing all sense of reason" in order to believe this. Same goes for every theistic religion, all of which have silly god narratives based on punishment sacrifices and other nonsense like that.
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