Can you call these people WEAK? I refuse to do so. If nothing else, these people were incredibly strong - and religion gave them their strength, because they could get it nowhere else.
Sure I can, I consider anyone who gets their fake strength from religion to be weak; it is not really strength it is more so ignoring reality (the whole idea of life after death is endorsed by people that are afraid of dying so they want to believe that there is life after death to comfort them). The above is just a opinion....