Not extortion rather adoption thru baptism, the only act that makes us children of God, inheritors of His kingdom, and allowing us to call Him Abba. You're an orphan. There's a heap of folks too who divorced/separated themselves from their Heavenly Father. They're even a sadder story than your own.
Far out! He was more progressive then, than you cons are today!!!
================== PeterS, because you are an Atheist, you have a Satanic presentation.
Jesus means we have obligations to fulfill to God, and to our land where we live. People on earth are citizens of both heaven and earth.
Therefore, we must respect and obey the hierarchy of ministering our lives. God, our country, our parents. That is not separation. It is unifying our faith to the one who is above us.