# Worst Father in History

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-father-in-history/695365>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 12, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-father-in-history/695365 "2014-08-12T12:53:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-father-in-history/695365/41 "2014-08-13T23:17:48Z")

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He’ll never be the HEAD of a major corporation.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-father-in-history/695365/42 "2014-08-14T01:04:46Z")

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> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> Hutton Gibson, no longer Australia’s preeminent religious wack-job dad.

He hasn’t been since 1999. He moved back to the U.S. and now lives in Pennsylvania. He is still a wack-job, though.

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**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-father-in-history/695365/43 "2014-08-14T01:22:05Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Puns are unbecoming, and plagiarized puns even more so.

yeah, what a numbskull…

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**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-father-in-history/695365/44 "2014-08-14T01:26:14Z")

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> [@Reyemile](#):
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> [Man posts photo of his seven-year-old holding a severed head to instagram](http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/12/world/asia/australia-boy-severed-head-syria/index.html?hpt=hp_c2)
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> Jesus fucking Christ, I’ve seen insane terrorists, but this is a whole new level.

God the Father has to be the worst father in history. He is said to have orchestrated the murder of his own son and then tried to pretend it was some how an act of love. Can you get worse than that?

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**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-father-in-history/695365/45 "2014-08-14T01:30:03Z")

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> [@Dangerosa](#):
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> I’m going to make a million dollars selling handbaskets for us to go to hell in.

Did you read about the guy who started a factory for bombs built into prayer mats?  
Prophets going thru the roof!

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-father-in-history/695365/46 "2014-08-15T03:53:48Z")

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> [@Reyemile](#):
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> [Man posts photo of his seven-year-old holding a severed head to instagram](http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/12/world/asia/australia-boy-severed-head-syria/index.html?hpt=hp_c2)
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> Jesus fucking Christ, I’ve seen insane terrorists, but this is a whole new level.

I’d still say Bing Crosby was a worse father.

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