He hid the fact that he believed in God, denied at first, then avoided, and now admits it with pride.
I haven't followed his entire corpus, obviously, but as far as I'm aware I don't think he ever hid the fact, although he's sometimes reticent about answering the question.
I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, so I lean toward him actually believing what he says (e.g. about climate change) rather than purposely hoodwinking people about it. Though, about the meat thing . . . it's kinda hard not to be aware of what you're putting in your mouth!
Speaking of climate change, would you say it is an incontestably true fact that climate change is a top priority survival issue for humanity? I think that's what the scientific consensus believes, correct? So I'm asking what you think about it. I haven't read a single book on the topic, and have only read a few articles and watched a few podcasts by experts, and I don't feel able to definitively evaluate the things I've heard.
I side with the scientific consensus by default but, for example, there's people, like some physicist who appeared on a Michael Shermer podcast (found it; will link it below), who argue the science is unsettled (although he admits climate change is happening, but he says we don't know how impactful it will be), and I can't really respond to their arguments other than to say "But consensus". I guess there's something about it that seems iffy to me unlike, say, COVID vaccines where I feel much more confident about the consensus view and will enter long FB arguments against the conspiracy theorists! Whereas the climate change deniers (I mean, the deniers of the danger of the change, not the change itself), I will simply leave alone!
RE: Smash the Cat. How much time left with my best friend?