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Posts: 5145
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posted:
Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:09 am
John has appeared on my show twice and just recently donated to keep IG going. John appeared on Taping 188 and 345.
May this thread remain in his memory.
My friend, Dr. Ed Buckner wrote this about John.
Quote:
John Arthur Henderson, M.D., a retired Air Force Flight Surgeon and
General Surgeon from Asheville, North Carolina, just died (on 31 August
2008). He was 85. Henderson graduated with honors from the University
of Illinois College of Medicine in 1945. He interned at the Research
and Educational Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; and was surgical resident
at Scott and White Clinic, Temple, Texas. During his Air Force career,
he served in England, Spain, and Japan. Within the United States, he
was stationed in various states from New York to California.
Dr. Henderson, well respected in the medical community, gained national
respect and affection for his powerful freethought words, heard and
read by many people across the nation. He had improved steadily as an
effective speaker, charming audiences even as he inspired them to
think. His wit and easy manner as a speaker, along with his popular
constant traveling companion, his wife Ruth, made him increasingly in
demand as a speaker, with repeat performances at venues where he had
spoken earlier increasingly the norm. He had addressed both local
freethought groups, like Atlanta Freethought Society and the Secular
Humanists of the Low Country (in Charleston), or at Furman University,
and national events like the Freethought Advance in Alabama or other
atheist conferences. He served on the speaker's bureau for Military
Association of Atheists and Freethinkers His talks, his books, and his
letters to the editor forced many to think and to laugh, often
simultaneously. Henderson's philosophical reputation grew steadily as
well in recent years, with each of his books presenting a deepening
complexity without sacrificing his sharp wit. He touched the lives of
countless people, first as a doctor, then as a writer and speaker. He
will be much missed.
His books included god.com: a deity for the new millennium (2005), Fear
Faith, Fact, Fantasy (2004), and Judging God: It Is Time to Judge
Religions and Their Gods (2007; with Craig Gurgew).
If you wish to send condolences, please let me know and I give you the email address. It's John's old email address that his wife will monitor from time to time.
He will be painfully missed.
-- Reggie
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