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  • I think this song is very insightful and I'm a Southern Baptist.

  • I really love this song, its just so comforting and TRUE. For whatever interpretation I have for it on that day. I feel like my Catholicism opened me to really pay attention to this Angel's song. Just my musings..

  • Whatever belief or non-belief makes you feel most at peace, is what is right. I have friends who became Christian and felt more complete, and I also have friends who after a long struggle with the church became atheists and are much more comfortable and at peace with that.

  • Is different for evry person, theres a big difference between dont beliv and reject other people belivs, i havent pray in all my life but i still get this, just let things be and go on, also is it bad that death note bring me here?

  • Very good!

  • everybody should google the religion of the flying spagetti monster aka pastafarians.

    im not being condescending or anything, im genuinely suggesting you do. its really interesting.

  • this is just supposed to be a funny, simple scene from the funniest show i've ever seem and you guys manage to start horrible arguments about religion over it?

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  • @ColorMeSkylar

    that comment might be the only one that makes sense

  • im pagan. everyone seems to be shouting out religions.

  • Very interesting song!

  • swag

  • everyone who gets mad and argues about religion on the internet is just stupid because you can't make someone believe what you think is true and nobody's going to find out if they are right until they die anyway.

  • everyone who commented about how stupid it is that this song is about religion, just imagine YOUR kids hadn't come home or cops came to YOUR house with solemn faces - you pray for good news, not to god in particular but to anyone who would listen, so please listen to the darn song and think how you would feel, this is an amazing song so just appreciate it

  • Dear Regina,

    You're right, we are laughing at the people depending on him.

    Love,

    Those not laughing "with god".

  • @FMLYHM123 Its comments like that which make hate people who are atheists, They say people who believe in God are more condisending, but I have met so many condisending atheists, I dont believe that. Why cant you atleast respect other people's beliefs? I may not agree with your beliefs but I will respect them. Cant you do the same for me?

  • @SnowFire337 I would rather be condescending than murder in the name of my religion. I can't respect the ideas of people who can't even apologize for the dark ages or the Spanish inquisition. Your religion has more history than your faith....I suggest you read up on it.

  • @FMLYHM123What happened, happened. Im in no place to try and change it. I CANT change it now. Im sure there is a lot of things you yourself would love to change, but cant. Things from the past arent worth fighting over. Apologized for, yes. Brought up in an arguement, no.

  • @SnowFire337 Ahhh yes, just like we no longer bring up slavery because it was in the past.

    Two words for ya: Rick Santorum.

    Now go jump off a bridge and see if God will save you then. Please stop replying you're not helping your case.

  • @FMLYHM123 -shrugs- Cliff would be a welcome sight to me. Just because I believe in God doesnt mean I think he is going to save me

  • Would everybody please shut up about religion please? What are you trying to prove? Nobody cares what you think. Please just listen to the song

  • @e7l13 i'm sorry i didn't know we lived in nazi germany where you can't say whatever you want

  • @Endofcivilization you can say what you want. its just, repetitive, annoying and nobody gives a shit. people need to grow up. its your choice whether you believe in science or fairytales. im just saying we should let people delude themselves as much as they want, i just dont appreciate people telling me how i should live my life.

    p.s- nazi germany? thats a bit much.

  • @e7l13 And right there you not only told people that they were stupid, but that all of the people who believe in god are believing in nothing but fairytales. Bro, I am an atheist and frankly now I get why people consider us assholes. Let those who have different opinions be and don't downgrade them.

  • @wyethcat a lot of people are stupid and the bible is just stories. that is obvious. i dont care if people think im an arsehole because at least im not deluded. i have been told a ridiculous amount of times that i am going to hell for not believing in god.

    please dont reply. i dont want to start another stupid argument.

  • @e7l13 hey u should be respectful to the way other people think. i am an atheist but it people like you that make the other athiest's look bad. just let people think the way they want.

  • @EzoWrath i would. if religous people showed me the same courtesy.

  • @e7l13 oh i see. sorry for snapping. i can understand where u see. i get mad too when i get judged from ppl with religions. but i try really hard just to show people that even if atheist's dont believe in god that we are still humans. It's a horrible feeling isnt it? to be judged just becuz of the way we think.

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  • @wyethcat Atheists who love this song unite. *bropaw*

  • @KomicKake :D Hellyes *bropaw*

  • @wyethcat Thank you. Your animation brought me to this song anyway lol. I am a Christian but I wont downgrade anyone who believes differently. But there are people from every religion/non-religion that gives the others a bad name.

  • Look at all these long ass comments because this song has to do with religion, kinda sad...

  • I'm an agnostique

    My classmates call me spawn of satan

    They say i' listen to black metal and practice black magic

    They say i'm a satanist

    I'm sad and i' cry but then i ldiscovered this song and now i'm like: Bitch does it look like i care about your point of view?

    Fuck all the haters..if you're atheist..good you like sience more

    If you are religious..good you like ..fairy tales

  • @CaramelaVerde whats agnostique? I looked it up and all the results were french 0.o

  • @locallego2 sorry AGNOST

  • "..and the last thing they see is a pair of hateful eyes" - that single line tears me up:'( but i love this song:)

  • I wish I had her voice, it's so beautiful *_*

  • shut the fuck up and listen to the music

  • You're an atheist and love this, You're a Christian and you love this.

    I'm a human and I love this. Religion shouldn't be a boundary between us. We ALL got here one way or another.

  • @JZPotter That... Was one of the wise st things I ever read off of a youtube comment. <3

  • I'm also an Atheist, but that's not going to stop me from enjoying good music. Hell, I love VeggieTales. People, even Atheists, can be way too sensitive about this stuff sometimes.

  • @twistedstrange How people see me: "that girl it's ok

    How people see me after i say i'm an agnostique: YOU SPAWN OF SATAN ....GO AWAY

    :( Always....

  • @CaramelaVerde i can understand ur point of view in some way. I once told someone i thought i could trust that i was atheist but then she told me i was going to burn in hell and she just kept ranting on me. and when i told my mom, it was pretty much the same. i felt horribly rejected.

  • Opinions are opinions, so is religion. Don’t judge the way people think. Try your best to be the best of person you can be, If God exist then wouldn’t he appreciate the many good things you truly trying to be a good person. You can’t say you’ve never sinned, but you can say that not all sinner are people who deserve to rot in the dirt. A man who loves another man, they were born that way. Maybe even the worst is to kill the man who raped another man’s daughter. What’s a true sin?

  • God over everything.

  • I should start be a better Christian. I just hope i get my crust - i lost in 3rd grade. i was really sad and i still am sad. Oh god i want my crust back, because since then, i had a lot of bad luck.

  • idk how this can inspire you if your an atheist because you don't know what it's like to believe or be in these situations and praying to god for help... so STFU your not inspired;)

  • @imisscali13 Atleast they are inspired in some way.. How are you being a good Christian or example for God if your sitting here telling them to "STFU" ? Wow.

  • @imisscali13 How do you know if they are or aren't inspired? I'm not religious, but I LOVE this song. It's better that most of the crap today's artists are coming out with. I'M inspired. And no real Christian would tell someone to shut the f*** up, because that is rude, and I'm pretty sure God doesn't approve of swearing. Just saying.

  • Love this ♥ because its NOT religious

  • Oh wow, that voice is just... divine

  • I love how mostly Atheist listen to this.

  • Thanks Regina for the heart mind connect. Ethos and Pathos has the power to make us feel and heal. Thanks for the dose! :D

  • i actually don't really believe.. no one near me does. it might sound selfish, but when i'm really down or something bad happened, i pray to God and ask Him if he can help me out. when i'm really worried about my family, i ask Him to bring them home safely. but i never forget to thank God when i feel happy, 'cause i don't know if i deserve that happiness. and still i don't really believe. i just like the thought of someone who makes sure everything is gonna be allright. :)

  • @larasfairytale Totally the same :)

  • @larasfairytale Direct your prayers to Jesus Christ and get ready for some radical changes. Not even kidding you.

  • LMAO Good one. 

  • @larasfairytale me too i dont believe either, but when something bad happens i cant help but pray. I only pray for their safety and happiness. But not for mine, i sometimes dont feel like i deserve it.

  • This song is about how people don't tempt fate in bad situations.You don't even have to put god in the explanation. At all.

  • I'm an Atheist and I still love this song

  • people always come back to God and give him a chance when shiz happens... shame that bad stuff has to happen for people to think about him.

  • I find this difficult to masterbate to

  • @zForzii why would u in the first place :3

  • @zForzii TROLL TROLL fucking fag

  • @GoldenWrapperPS3 Hey no need for swears

  • @zForzii Sorry, I get emotional ;)

  • So, I just found out today that one of my best friends from Bible college is suffering from bone cancer and the doctors don't think he's going to make it through the weekend. I haven't seen him for four years and he's all the way in Vancouver, which means I won't be able to make it to the funeral. This song made it all right.

  • No one's laughing at god in divorce

    No ones laughing at god in death

    No ones laughing at god in prison

    No ones laughing at god in poverty

  • This song is so true that it hurts

  • i feel like everyone can either add their own story to no ones laughing at god when... or they can relate to something that's already been said. Regina Spektor makes me wanna pull all my emotions to the surface and cry, laugh or both all at once.

  • I'm an atheist. This song inspires me. I don't necessarily look at it in a religious light. It also has a very vivid human light to me, the emotions are ones everyones felt, even if not in relation to god. But, the religious aspect is quite beautiful as well, I'm glad I can appreciate it.

  • No one laughs at God when they know Him, and how He makes them feel...

  • No one laughs at god when they are atheist.

  • ooh...goosebumps.

  • I'm updating my iPod, but all I'm really doing is putting as many of her songs in as possible :P

  • This song might just change my life....

  • 44 people laughed at God....

  • @lpsspecialeffects Yet, not even God laughed at your comment..

  • Any*

  • This song is so empowering and makes you really think about what you have done in your life and how you can turn the wrongs you've done into rights that you can/will do. Regina Spektor really has a way with her voice and lyrics that can really make you think about things. Whether you're and atheist or Christian or polytheistic or and religion out there you can get some sort of wonderful message from this beautiful song. -3

  • @shibnibs ; couldn't have said it better myself! :)

  • I, personally, am Atheist, but I think that this song can still be just as meaningful. I think it can mean that we so often take everything around us for granted, and it takes a disaster or a tragedy to make us realise how comfortable we'd gotten with the things in our life, even though at any moment everything could be taken away.

    Just wanted any non-God believers to think about this before they click the dislike button.

  • @fudgemuffins42 I agree with you 100%

  • @fudgemuffins42 Bravo Mihnea...

  • ANYONE GOT A TOWEL???

    someone spilled some Red Kool-aid on the Likes bar :/

  • i love this song...<3

  • gives me chills

  • Wow that's just what i needed! =] my soul is smiling.

  • no one laughs at God when everything goes wrong, and you dont know what to do. atleast i dont.

  • this song gives me the chills:):)

  • im 18 and pregnant :(

    NOO!!

  • @QW5ub255bW91cw Wow sorry to hear, prayin for you. God bless you & your kid.

  • God gives me strength to do things I would never be able to do on my own, he is the light in the dark, he is my omforter when i am scared, he is my all in all.... so like if you agree :) love you God

  • @impactsoccerqueen28 he also isnt real

  • @locallego2 he is more real that you are. Why are you listening to this song if you dont believe? Really? Wow. C'mon. Listen to music you enjoy and stop hating on beliefs.

  • @impactsoccerqueen28 what? arnt atheists allowed to listen to good songs? I just think people shouldnt be putting so much faith in something that isnt real.

    there isnt one bit of evidence that god exists, this is how I feel, I choose to voice my opinion on the internet because I like to argue : )

    saying all of this, im legitimatly sorry if I offened anyone : (

  • @locallego2 No, no. I have nothing against atheists. I am just trying to say this is sort of a christian-based song. I am not offended by your point of view because if I was that means that I would be offended by something I dont believe in. There are going to be things you dont like in this world, but you're just going to have to get over it. I dont mind you being an atheist, if you dont mind me being a christian. :) we can be friends without religion coming in the way of it :)

  • @impactsoccerqueen28 *new found respect for christian people

    never met a christian that was ok that atheists exist : )

  • @locallego2 I am so sorry! I am definitely not a christian that is going to shove God's word up your ass. lol. if you are nice to me, I'll be nice to you. I dont need my religion, or your religion to get in the middle of a friendship! :)

  • No one Laughs at God...

    <3

  • i don't believe in something like god but this song gives me goosebumps every time i listen to it.

  • i cant stop watching this video listning to this song no one laughs at God

  • Maybe we see got clearest through tears

  • We have made God so freakin fake. God is easy to handle. God fits in our jokes. God can be ushered into Sunday and shut with your Bible. God created the world until you read Scientific American. God just shows up before bed to take a quick prayer. Heck, God only matters when you're arguing with people on YouTube that think otherwise.

    But I don't know how to express how much _more_ He is than that. How much we were made for God. What I see in this song is a hate of what we've degraded God to.

  • @ChineseDragonKing

    Exactly

    What I hear in this song is that God is no joke. It seems like she keeps pointing to those moments we're all on our knees and how close we come to God at those points... and then how easily we blow Him off as a punchline when everything's alright. This song isnt about God having a sick sense of humor- its about us.

  • is it not grace+mercy that u can type with those fingers? see with those eyes or hear with those ear? isnt it wonderful when u can breath on ur own while so many others were born with defects? we'v brought most of the problems ourselves, God gave us more than evrything we need to make things right again. God's power is made perfect in weakness. Does it not amaze u when Bethoven(deaf) wrote 1of the greatest music? helen keller? value of men is not of body but the will in God

  • this song makes me angry but i can't put my finger on it. i get the feeling that god lets horrible things happen and is kinda like 'HA! laugh now'. i don't feel encouraged to worship him but that its kinda normal for these daily tragedies to happen and he just amuses over human suffering. it just makes me feel that god really doesn't care unless you 'laugh with him' . i don't feel any kind of grace or mercy i just feel that the world is horrible and we just need to deal with it.

  • Regina Spektor has such a beautiful soul.

  • For some reason this is my least favorite Regina Spektor song.

    Probably because I'm an atheist.

  • @ThePrisonersCinema

    Even if u r an atheist, u can still get something out of this song.

  • Im an atheist, and I love this song to no end.

  • @MsBitch56

    Me too

  • No one laughs at Regina Spektor.

  • @fumfulapenguin, really quite unrelated to the song point, but thanks for spelling everything and using the correct punctuation! Some Youtubers think they can get away with putting zero effort into their videos just because they're posting a famous song.

    Glad to see you're not one of them :D

  • This woman is so amazing! Her voice is beautiful, and her lyrics have a ton of meaning in them.

    Compare that to all the mainstream crap being played these days.

  • the part about the eyes is so sad

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  • Jesus...

  • im used to eminem screaming raps cursing in all of my music, but this is amazing

  • i'm atheist, but Regina does make a very good point :/

  • @thecandlesthatburnin u r not atheist bro. ur just a scared fag who whores between theism and atheism

  • @asdFRap Actually honey, I'm a girl. And yes, maybe I'm more agnostic, but I don't know if you know what that means :L Tbh, I'm just accepting of other people's religion, whatever it might be.

  • @asdFRap Really, there's no reason to make stupid & rude comments like that to someone. could you keep opinions like that to yourself please? I definitely don't care for them & I hope no one else does.

  • @asdFRap wow what a pitiful comment ......how hateful must you be of other people? 

  • @LoveTheVoiceWithin just joking yo

  • I looooooooveeee regina spektor (human of the year, laughing with and sailor song and others! )

  • When I here this song I think of Death Note...

  • You guys are silly. Instead of debating, lets just enjoy this amazing song.

  • imma do a cover of this. <3

  • Fantastic song!! <3

  • No one laughs at God when they're listening to this song.

  • @JadeyMason1995 - Because it is horrible?

  • Eldad9 I think that this song means that some people only believe in god when it is convenient and it's when they are put in a bad situation that they are touched by the grace of god. That's just my opinion tho

  • No one's laughing at God when there are 40 dislikes on this video.

  • Give this woman a Grammy already!

  • @EminentKnight All of the moving and amazing artists don't get Grammy's. It's not societies fault, or the corrupt system, it is because only certain people truly understand how amazing they are. You have to have an open mind, and understand things. Ms. Spektor is like Emilie Autumn in that way.

  • "INRI" by Psyclon Nine shares a similar sentiment. the difference being that INRI is speaking against god whereas Laughing is conversely in favour of the concept of god. the intrinsic belief in both is that no one truly believes unless they are in crisis. ergo, religious belief is naught but a crutch. those who do not possess the strength of will to believe in themselves innately believe in something more powerful because they are helpless. the truth is we are each our own 'god'.

  • @Live123456ify the point is that religious belief is a crutch; some people need it when reality is too much to handle.

  • No one's laughing at elves in times of trouble either. Does it make them real?

  • @eldad9 I really don't think that's the point of the song. So shut up.

  • @Live123456ify you can't silence people........everybody needs to be strong in their beliefs or their dis beliefs

  • I almost cried listening to this. The lyrics are really good.

  • why does it matter what religon you are?

  • I just have one word after listening to this song: Respect

  • This song gave me hope witch in the time im goin through seemed tough thank you

  • AMAZING SONG!! fell in love with it the first time I heard it on music choice on io cable!! as a Christian I appreciate a song like this b/c pplz always laugh at me when I talk about God and how much faith I have in him!!

  • :)

    

  • i love thi song and you can have your own opinion on what you think this song means becausethats how it speaks to you. See with me I thik that she's saying that many people will tell jokes and laugh at god but when something bad goes on all of a sudden they turn into people who pray and your wondering why all these things are happening and its because of you, but thats just what I think.

  • Regina is right. I'm catholic, and I don't like when people tell God jokes. These same people when they really need fall down on their knees and start to pray.

  • @VictorIRONMAIDEN666 If there's a God then someone must of created him and so on so forth. No one knows at all but a book that was written by someone more than a thousand years ago, and it was re-written thousands of times. I'm not bashing or anything, but no one knows if this 'person' exists or not and I hate it when people shove it down other people's throats.

  • @XoxSkittlesChickXox I understand you. I'm catholic but one of the things that I must care is choise of religion and believes. I really don't like what catholic church did on feudalism age, killing who didn't believe in God or church's things. I think everyone must decide what to believe or not to believe. I say that I'm catholic just cause i'm used, but actually I believe in some things that are not catholic and others that are. I'm actually loosing my belief on catholic DOCTRINES.

  • @VictorIRONMAIDEN666 But anyone can make jokes of my believes. No one prove the existence of God, and no one proved that he don't exist. Atheist are as believer as catholics because they believe that God do not exist (agnostics are different).

    And, as my history and philosophy teacher used to say "everybody in death time appeal to God."

    Peace brother!

  • @VictorIRONMAIDEN666 Nice interpretation ....but those lyrics also have other views as well......Respek ;)

  • Why do people think that something bad needs to happen to them for them to be atheist or agnostic? I am agnostic and the reason I do not have a religion is because I simply do not believe that people should base their morals on something they do not know is true and that many rituals and stories do not make sense to me and I'm sure the same is true for many other atheists/agnostics. They just believe that it is the truth just like religious people.

  • she has a funny way with music that makes you think in the oddest ways

  • love it!

  • I've listened to this song so many times, but I still don't fully understand it. Is she just saying: bad things happen? Or is it the oposite? Opinions please :)

  • @Brittischteasipper she's refering to people who say they do not believe in any god or religion... she tries to say by this song that it doesnt matter what religion you are (atheist or other) we all have faith in the worst of times. im an atheist.. and i understand this song.

  • @Brittischteasipper I see it this way: she's saying that everybody is good at saying they don't believe in God and that he's just a fairy tale, but when times are hard no one is laughing anymore, because when you are really down, no matter what you think, you have to believe in something to give you hope. And even if you are atheist, you find yourself thinking, 'Please, don't let it be so.'

    At least, that's my opinion, but I'm catholic so I don't really know what atheists think. :)

  • @martymonsterallergy I was an Atheist for a while, and the only thing I needed to believe in to keep hope was in my own abilities. Don't make generalizations about people, regardless if you add IMO/IMHO to the end, that just makes you sound conceited. You get farther admitting ignorance and learning truth.