do you have enough faith that your car will start when you try to start it? if not why try?

You've got that backwards. You don't need to try if you have faith. If you don't have faith, you won't know if it will start unless you try.

I have a reasonable expectation that my car will start when I turn the key in the ignition.

A reasonable expectation based on the fact that it has done so so many times in the past.

Now if I had faith in a god or gods, I would bypass the whole key-ignition part and just pray that the car would start. I think we both know how that would end up.

Didn't really think this question through, did you?

It not a question of faith. It's a question of experience. It ran fine the last time I drove it. Nothing has happened that I am aware of that would prevent it from starting the next time I go out.

That's not faith. That's knowledge of probabilities. Faith would be believing a car that had never started before would start, sight unseen.

Because based on experience, my car has a high percentage of reliability in starting when I turn the key. And I need to perform this ritual to get to work.

This is in marked contrast with my previous vehicle, which had a very poor record in terms of actually starting when I turned the magic key. With it, I regularly had to perform additional rituals, up to and including percussive maintenance with a hammer on the starter to get it to work.

That's one of the reasons that particular vehicle was sent to the junk heap.

And if there is no jesus then what makes the next tissue pop up?

I expect my car to start, because it has recently been working. But if it doesn't start. I'm going to take it to an autoshop, not pray to jesus to fix my car.

Next time you get sick, have faith and just pray for it to go away. You are now not allowed to use doctors.

Try throwing out faith, and applying logical probability.

Basically - did it start last time? does it normally start? Are there any obvious reasons why it would not start this time?

You'll be AMAZED how much better your life suddenly works when you use probabilities to make judgements instead of faith.

Hmmmmm.

Nah. Just a pretty strong inductive hunch.

I expect it to start, but there is no faith involved.