page_title: Paul Cliteur
section_title: Further information
hierarchical_section_title: Paul Cliteur / Further information
caption_attribution_description: English: Paul Cliteur lecturing on religious violence. Nederlands: Paul Cliteur houdt een lezing over religieus geweld.
context_page_description: Paul Bernard Cliteur is a Dutch professor of jurisprudence at Leiden University, as well as a politician, philosopher, writer, publicist and columnist. He is known for his conservative perspective, his atheism, republicanism and efforts for animal rights. He is a member of De Vrije Gedachte. Since 2015, Cliteur is a member of the Dutch political party Forum voor Democratie, where he is chairman of the advisory board and the party's official think tank. In 2019 he was elected to be parliamentary group leader for Forum voor Democratie in the Dutch Senate.
  Cliteur has also been on the board of several organisations, including supervisor of the Telders Foundation, and from 1993 until 1995 chair of the Humanist League.
context_section_description: In 2001, Paul Cliteur was ambassador of the Stichting Varkens in Nood ("Pigs in Distress Foundation"), and supported Hans Baaij's initiative of a "Universal Declaration of Production Animal Rights".
  In his spoken column in the 1 December 2002 episode of Buitenhof, Cliteur favourably discussed Francesco Carotta's theory that Jesus is, in fact, a transformed character of Julius Caesar, originating from erroneous copying. In the 23 December 2002 Nova episode, he called Carotta's theory a "discovery equal to the views of Darwin and Galileo, which overturns all of cultural history". This belief was mocked by Nijmegen's classical historian Anton van Hooff, who dubbed it 'atheist superstition'.
  In 2004 and 2014, Cliteur was lijstduwer during the European elections for the Party for the Animals. He also wrote a contribution in the book "De eeuw van het dier" ("Animal's Century") by Marianne Thieme. During the 2006 Dutch general election he was again lijstduwer, however, he simultaneously endorsed number seven of EénNL, former PM Anton van Schijndel (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy). The JOVD (Youth Organisation Freedom and Democracy) awarded him the prize for Liberal of the Year 2002.
caption: Cliteur lecturing on religious violence (2015).
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