# Who was GOD's father?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 4, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-gods-father/8052 "2000-03-04T06:21:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayburner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jayburner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayburner)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-gods-father/8052/1 "2000-03-04T06:21:00Z")

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I know this sounds silly…but if there was a god…who was his father?

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_I’m as confused as a baby in a topless bar_

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**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-gods-father/8052/2 "2000-03-04T06:27:00Z")

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First YOU have to say who was his mother, then we can get around to paternity.

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Are you driving with your eyes open or are you using The Force? - A. Foley

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-gods-father/8052/3 "2000-03-04T06:39:00Z")

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Marlon Brando. 🙂

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Chaim Mattis Keller  
[ckeller@kozmo.com](mailto:ckeller@kozmo.com)

“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the  
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be  
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.  
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”  
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-gods-father/8052/4 "2000-03-04T06:51:00Z")

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Lord Krishna was the son of Vasudeva.

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-gods-father/8052/5 "2000-03-04T06:51:00Z")

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ROFL, **CM**!

In fact, God’s father is **David B**. Would you like to meet him? Follow this thread to Great Debates.

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