and atheist shall hav god.

None of the people, sane people, who know me as an atheist will ever gift me idols of any god/godess for that matter. No one.

My idiosyncrasies and psychic flirtations with the ideas of satanism and bouts of blasphemies are more than standing proofs of my sacreligic profanity.

and one fine day a very dear frnd gifts me idols of Ganesha ( the solver of all troubles) and Saraswati (the godess of knowledge), and i don hav the slightest idea as to what this is or what it means.

Of what importance can images of gods can be to an atheist?

well on the contrary to what i mustve felt i found it rather soothing. A mental sereneity (do i call it sanity???) owerpowered all other thoughts... 

Of what importance can images of god be to a theist? For the very premise of being theist is believing. He would have posessed idols already. One more added.

To an atheist who has no beliefs... it turns out , its a continuos reminder of an external intelligence (as our Miss sunshine at CL would put it)... 

Of faith that others have in him, and may be of god if he is, of protection that people believe in and find comforting in the darkest of times...

(And most importantly a back up plan to believing... well everyone has beliefs... when there is nothing else.)

It sure doesn make me a theist so quickly so dramatically, neither do i have any spl inclinations to go that way. But sure someone has given me the alternate. a way believed by many as way of faith, truth and salvation.

Thanx (to whom it may concern).