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One way you could go about destroying a belief like that is to use Ockham's Razor: sure, it's possible that all kinds of unfalsifiable beliefs are true, but why should you waste time in believing any of them, if they have no effect on anything ?
However, if the believer has some subjective evidence for the belief -- f.ex., if he personally experienced the gods talking to him -- then this attack cannot work. In this case, would you still say that his belief is "indestructible" ?