  Elsewhere on a theological plane, Gassendi shares other core views with Descartes, though some commentators have tried to paint Gassendi as concealing atheist tendencies, owing to his suspected materialist and libertine allegiances. Such a charge is inaccurate.  Yet it is also so that Gassendi does not accept the Cartesian route to belief in the Divine, notably rejecting Descartes' version of the ontological argument.