Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Belive Anything by Kelly Weill

Author:Kelly Weill [Weill, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781643750682
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Goodreads: 56437694
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

6 | Alone in a Flat World

SOMETHING WAS WRONG, and Nate Wolfe had a pretty good

idea what. His sermon wasn’t until Sunday, but early on a Friday morn-

ing, he received a text summoning him to church. Immediately, please.

Wolfe, a pastor, lived only a mile from his church in the suburbs of

Toledo, Ohio. He’d moved his whole family cross-country for the job

seven years earlier. The insular church community was his world—his

“fishbowl,” he described it. But minutes after arriving that Friday morn-

ing, Wolfe became a fish out of water. Church elders sat him down and

summarily fired him.

“They didn’t want any discussion,” he told me. “They just slid a piece

of paper across the table to me and said, ‘We can’t have a member with

this kind of association.’ ”

That embarrassing association was Wolfe’s Flat Earth belief, which

he’d kept under wraps in order to avoid this kind of situation. He’d been

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