It certainly didn't take long for the whole Passion thing to start getting out of hand. Now we have some Pentecostal minister from Mississippi using the movie's hype and his billboard to spread the message that everyone was afraid of: "The Jews killed the Lord Jesus." No wonder the Ashkenazim Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger has written a letter to the Pope asking him to denounce any anti-Semitism that may occur from the showing of the movie.

But we may not have to worry about all of this, as a story from the BBC shows that the Earth was almost put on 'impact alert' after a 30 meter wide asteroid was initially measured to have a 25% chance of impact somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Luckily subsequent measures determined that it would pass safely past Earth's orbit, although it was finally found to be 500 meters across. At least it would have taken our minds of this whole Passion thing, well, except for the 'LaHaye' Christians who would probably see it as a sign of the coming apocalypse. But then again, to them what isn't a sign of the coming apocalypse?