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Sure, then I could plan an amazing death.

I'd begin an elaborate stage production, hiring thousands of extras with borrowed money. I'd disown my family to avoid them being settled with the debt. All of this would be done in the form of a new religious revival movement.

When I knew I had 3 years left to live, I would work on becoming the biggest name in conservative-right wing America. I would have bombastic rhetoric that constantly bashed homosexuals, non-whites, and women. I would become the biggest asshole on the face of the planet, hands down.

I would avoid any and all serious debates until 3 years. Using my carefully crafted speech, I would begin arguing that what I'm saying is Gods will and nobody else's; that homosexuality is a sin etc. And, with just a few minutes left, I would begin to wrap up my pointlessly elaborate plan.

In my typical, easy going sarcastic question, I would ask my opponent why God hasn't punished me for my "reprehensible" viewpoints. Delaying until I had only a mere minute left, I would turn to the audience, using the camera man planted in to the media to get me a good dramatic close up of my face. And I would say to them:

"Well now, if God wants us to give equal rights to homosexuals, transvestites, transexuals, bisexuals, asexuals, women, blacks, latinos, muslims, jews, and all the rest, then why, he would strike me down THIS INSTANT!"

I would slam my hand on the table and keel over backwards, dead. The video would already be uploaded to youtube.

The punchline? In light of my death and the clear view of gods will, my entire estate gathered from my televangelism would be donated to support youth centers in the inner city to help teens who had been kicked out for coming out to their parents, as well as to establish funds for a movement which prromotes "Family Values for Any Family," an organization designed to undermine extreme religious conservatism by promoting conservative Christian values without any racism or homosexuality.

This would accomplish three things.

1. It'd be awesome. 2. It'd split the powerful conservative christian voting bloc in the United States forcing the Republican party to become more moderate in order to win over the more liberal side of the vote. 3. It'd force people who take this shit seriously to question whether or their current values are correct.