Weinberg's remarks must be taken in context, of course, to be fair. In the context as he meant it, it's a fairly reasonable statement, I suppose.

I've noticed that all you have to do is say the word "religion", though, or "God" or "Jesus" or "afterlife" or "soul", and a lot of people start foaming at the mouth with overt hostility for some reason. Their zeal against religion is positively religious in its intensity. I always wonder why? What is their particular reason for that reaction? Did their parents force them to pray 15 times a day, beat themselves bloody with metal hooks in penance and then wear a hair shirt or what is it?

Such people leap onto a thread like this with the alacrity with which a starving flea leaps onto a dog. ;-) I find it an appealing subject too, but mainly because I like to discuss spiritual philosophy.