 Instead of retiring the concept of God, however, Meillassoux wants to claim it for philosophy: what takes the place of revealed religion, on this account, is not straightforwardly atheism, but the God of the philosophers. God’s inexistence belongs, Meillassoux argues, to the general contingency he takes to be the condition of all being. Put the other way around, this means that it is necessarily the case that God’s existence is possible (Watkin, 149). On Christopher Watkin’s reading, “Meillassoux comes tantalisingly close here to implying that the only way to be rid of God is rationally to prove his existence, but we shall have to wait a little while longer for his conclusion on the existence of God” (137).