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Mike Huckabee took to the pulpit this past weekend in South Carolina delivering a sermon about humility, how being good isn't enough to get you into heaven, and trusting Jesus. Per the Boston Globe:

"The criteria to get into heaven is you have to be not good, but perfect. That's the real challenge in it," he said at First Baptist North Spartanburg, a megachurch with 2,500 members.

"On that day, when I pull up, I'll be asked, 'Do you have what it takes to get in?' " Huckabee said. "And if I ask, 'Well, what does it take to get in?' 'Gotta be perfect.'

"Well, I'm afraid I don't have that. But you know what, I won't be there alone that day. Somebody is going to be with me. His name is Jesus, and he's promised that he would never leave me or forsake me," he said.

Asked by reporters later if he thinks only Christians will go to heaven, Huckabee declined to say. He often says that, as a minister, he joked that he doesn't even believe all Baptists are going to heaven.

"I'm going to stick to the things that make it critical for me to be president of the United States," Huckabee said yesterday. "I have deep convictions about who goes and who doesn't, but as far as who makes that decision, it isn't me, it's God. I'm going to leave that up to him."

He argued that the Constitution forbids a political candidate from being subjected to a religious litmus test. And he claimed to be the only candidate who gets asked about specific tenets of his faith.

Watch an older Huckabee sermon below the fold.