Unknowingly, more likely; not ‘secretly’. I don’t think there’s any intent to withhold an opinion, but the willingness to question precepts at all is itself an

Unknowingly, more likely; not ‘secretly’. I don’t think there’s any intent to withhold an opinion, but the willingness to question precepts at all is itself an opinion (and one that I agree with regardless of topic). Literal religious wars have been fought over that sort of willingness, so I tend to state it more plainly than is typically comfortable.