Faith however is not dependent on religion. You can have faith in a close friend.
faith: –noun
1.confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in anther's ability.
That's a very broad definition of faith. Faith in a friend is not the same as faith in a religion. You place "faith" in a friend because you know the friend, and can therefore use inference to know what they would or wouldn't do. Faith as applied to religion is different. If it was the same, the phrase "you just got to have faith" wouldn't exist. Used in that way, it's clearly saying "you just got to
believe it even though you don't have a good reason". Yes, the meanings get blurred sometimes, but there is a distinct difference.
It's like people that say, "you have faith that the sun will come up tomorrow". No, I have a reasonable expectation that the sun will come up tomorrow. I have confidence based on past experience and what I know of how the universe works that the sun come up tomorrow. But I don't have faith.
In Christianity, we see the Bible as the word of God. God is not going to contradict his own word, so the two should agree anyhow. The problem is when people don't understand or miss-interpret the Bible.
I'd argue that the problem is when people DO understand the bible, and follow it anyway.
Oh, and I also wanted to mention, after talking with Alsek over PM, the animal sacrifice thing appears to have been based on a misunderstanding. I still think Alsek is mischaracterizing it, but whatever.