We began this investigation by arguing that both imitative and residual atheisms are new moves in an old game and that their failure rigorously to think ‘after God’ is indicated by their systematic colonisation by ‘postsecular’ theologians. The implicit complicity of imitative atheism with the theological notions it explicitly rejects has been exposed (by Blanchot and others), and the asceticism of residual atheism, its ceding to theology of truth and goodness along with its Romantic inability to consummate the death of God, is lamented by Badiou and Meillassoux. As a recognition of and reaction to the inadequacy of both imitative and residual atheisms, it is our argument that a consensus has emerged around a desire to move beyond both parasitism and asceticism to a post-theological integration that cuts the theological root of parasitism without renouncing its fruit.