  While Craig holds that God and immortality are required for meaning in life, one could argue that even if not strictly necessary, immortality and God would enhance the value and meaning of one’s life and that prospective enhancement is reason sufficient to hope that God exists and for human immortality. All else being equal, if one’s achievements were to have an eternal positive effect that does seem more valuable than if they had a limited effect. Is hope motivated by pragmatic reasons a sufficient basis upon which to erect the superstructure of theistic commitment? With this question, we are back to issues concerning the permissibility of hope. There are those who argue that the existence of God would render the world worse-off than if God did not exist. That we should hope that this is not a God created universe. For example, see Kahane 2011, and the last section of this entry for a discussion.