Nihlism Cannot Assail True Faith

Obadiah Shoher writes about the ineffectiveness of replying to people out to destroy and recommends faith as the only "arguement" that works:

Whatever argument you muster, nihilists can easily counter it. The religious right to the Land of Israel: how do we know that God exists? The historical right: if God doesn’t exist then the biblical stories are mostly untrue. National right: why should a nation have a state? Most ethnic and religious groups lack statehood. The right of conquest: nihilists declare it expired. So don’t drop a good argument just because malicious nihilists have found a retort. Instead, amass your arguments as circumstantial evidence: every single bit of it can be refuted but the whole of it is plausible. On the contrary, attack the nihilists’ arguments. They have so few arguments—and those are highly theoretical—that they cannot build up a body of plausible circumstantial evidence to support their agenda.

If you feel in a Sophistic mood yourself, try an irrefutable argument. It is considered fallacious in Aristotelian logic because by definition such argument could be never disproved, but it goes well against the Sophists. Consider this: This land is ours because God gave it to us, and the Torah is truth to the last word. This is a statement of belief, closed to nihilist discourse.

Nihilism cannot assail true faith.

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