Why are they being laughed at?
With all your reading and commenting on God's Word, you didn't know God's own have a relationship with Him? But there are many who don't care to KNOW Him...
All my relationships are verifiable. I hear people tell me they have a relationship with all sorts of imaginary things. Until they can show me what they have a relationship with I refuse to accept their "witness".
There are just way too many people claiming they know the truth, which differs just about form everyone else's.
"Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
See, this is the type of intolerance that is common to so many Protestants. Unless it is their way it is damned, cursed, and vilified. For one I don't say "Lord, Lord." For two, even when I was a practicing Christian I never would have thrown that judgment into anyone's face, because that's not my judgment to make. But some protesters, while making fun of Catholic priests, act as "alter Christus" in more ways than one.