Last week, Glenn Beck hosted David Barton for a discussion on the importance of prayer and fasting heading into this election, which Beck kicked off by pointing to the iconic, though historically dubious, myth of George Washington kneeling in prayer at Valley Forge to make the point that this nation was birthed in prayer.

Eventually, the topic turned toward the current election, where Beck admitted that though Mitt Romney was not his first choice to be the Republican presidential nominee, he feels good about the upcoming election, as does everyone Beck considers to be a “spiritual giant,” despite the fact that “nothing looks good” and all the polls and campaign developments are telling him that there is “no reason that I should feel good on this.”

But it is exactly the dire state of the campaign that is making Beck so confident because, as he said, “God is trying to make this so clear to us that, if it happens, it’s His finger” as both Beck and Barton went on to credit Romney’s deep spiritual life and compare him to George Washington: