"Nevertheless, I think his satire misses the point entirely; he misunderstands the physicists' claims and, what is worse, the idea of religious funerals."

I don't think that he misunderstands, physicists' claims. I think he understands the limits of physics and what physicists claim quite well.

Physics has nothing to say about the afterlife or the meaning of life. Counting photons which struck a man's face is of no consolation to a widow.