on religion and health." He died after Madalyn Murray O'Hair staged a coup at a sham stockholders meeting in 1987 and began an unsuccessful court battle to claim it, even though he detested her and her claim was found legally groundless because his estate was based on his own personal wealth and investments, not profits from the company, which operated at a loss. In 1988 he countersued her for $7 million, accusing her of racketeering, but died before it could be resolved. In 1994 the trial ended in favor of O'Hair, but she feared a reversal on appeal, and began secreting assets before her tragic 1995 murder. After a nasty fight, Johnson's estate went to his personal friend Bonnie Lange, who continued publication of the Truth Seeker, promptly dropping his white supremacist and anti-Semitic programs; however, printed publication became sporadic after 1997. Quotes "To Theists, the Universe proves the existence of God. To Atheists, the only thing the Universe proves is the Universe." "Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes." "Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason." Publications Superior Men (1949) There Is No God (1952) Religion is a Gigantic Fraud Successful Stock Investing (2nd Ed., 1984) References External links James Hervey Johnson tribute Website Archive.org snapshot of The Truth Seeker Co. Website, 2014-04-27 1901 births 1988 deaths American atheists American conspiracy theorists American vegetarianism activists American white supremacists Freethought writers Germ theory denialists Orthopaths