article_snippet.sent: David Cameron took on Church of England bishops yesterday after Church of England bishops questioned the morality of David Cameron austerity and welfare policies.
article_snippet.sent: Prime Minister intervention came as another senior Tory, chief whip Michael Gove, claimed Christians in Britain were being dismissed with a combination of condescension and suspicion.
article_snippet.sent: Six weeks ago, the Church provoked a row with ministers by publishing an unprecedented guide to how the country’s 30million Christians should ‘approach the General Election’.
article_snippet.sent: The Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev Justin Welby - pictured ahead of a service for the re-burial of Richard III at Leicester Cathedral last week - has seen the Church of England come under fire from the PM .
article_snippet.sent: Writing in The Spectator magazine today, Mr Gove said that the popular image of Christianity was at odds with the reality of churches across the country, which daily offered ‘thousands of quiet kindnesses’ to those most in need.
article_snippet.sent: To call yourself a Christian in contemporary Britain is to invite pity, condescension or cool dismissal.
highlights_snippet.sent: Comes after Church provoked a row with unprecedented election guide .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: In it they told Britain's Christians how they should 'approach election' 