The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work

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I keep hearing "life without God is meaningless" but still no one will tell me what this meaning is if there is a god.

I could make another thread about it I suppose, but I get barely any answers when I ask difficult questions like this. I've kind of given up bothering to try anymore. I know we don't have many theists, but I only get about 5% of them to answer, if I'm lucky. Clearly they don't want to think about certain questions.

How does a super-powered being keeping a tally of good deeds versus bad deeds give life any meaning? To me it reduces the whole thing to a joke, a joke I must live through none-the-less and I'll do it as best as I can and ignore the insane tallying God.

I suspect the "meaning" is invested in the hope that life isn't going to end. This implies that a finite existence is utterly pointless, which is a very scary conclusion; but a big insight into the mind of the person claiming this to be the case. This isn't any meaning at all of course, it's just a delusion to avoid having to face reality. (Cue the argument from ignorance.)