Barton Presents Legend as Fact at Capitol Prayer Event

As Barton relates the tale, a British loyalist named Issac Potts owned a home near where Washington was camped at Valley Forge and one day stumbled upon Washington alone in the woods making supplication to God on behalf of his army and the American cause, causing Potts to rush home and declare to his wife that the British cause was lost since God would most assuredly answer the prayers of any man who prayed with such conviction:

You will surely be shocked to learn that, contrary to Barton’s assertion, this apocryphal incident never actually happened, as History Professor John Fea explained in his book “Was America Founded As a Christian Nation?: