Not a bore. I guess it isn't that easy to understand when you aren't Historian. And actually it isn't a subtle distinction, it is essential.

As a citizen, as a person, they are things that I think morally good or wrong, or that I think have/had bad effects or good effects on society. We live in a democracy, I can be anticlerical, anti-Islam, anti-Judaism...and actually I am for several reasons!

But as a Historian, I have no problem doing my researchs on Inquisitors at the end of Middle Ages for instance, and as a History teachers I have to teach everything and to make my pupils exercise their intellect by parsing sources and to make them understand past times.

This is why laicité is so important btw. It's all about studying in school and no influence from the oustide must intervene.