Paratheism: A Proof that God neither Exists nor Does Not Exist
heism and its cousins, atheism and agnosticism, are seldom taken to task for logical epistemological incoherence. This paper provides a condensed proof that not only theism, but atheism and agnosticism as well, are all of them conceptually self undermining, and for the same reason: All attempt to make use of the concept of "transcendent reality," which here is shown not only to lack meaning, but to preclude the very possibility of meaning. In doing this, the incoherence of theism, atheism, and agnosticism is secondary to the more general incoherence of any attempts to refer to so called "transcendent realities." A recognition of the conceptually fundamental incoherence of theism, atheism, and agnosticism compels our rational assent to a position the author names "paratheism." _________________________________ The author has chosen to issue this paper as a free open access publication under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivs license, which allows anyone to distribute this work without changes to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this work are not used for commercial purposes or profit, and that this work will not be used without the author's or his executor's permission in derivative works (i.e. you may not alter, transform, or build upon this work without such permission) The full legal statement of this license may be found at http:/creativecommons.org/licenses/by nc nd/4.0/legalcode T