You are interfering with the main query/loop, which is bad – there is nothing more to say.
You can do a custom loop, see the codex article The Loop to start with, or use the pre_get_posts hook, if you want to do something other then the usual behaviour.
If you need to toy with $wp_query, for example to fix the pagination on custom loops, then restore it afterwards.
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