The dog ain ' t wagging its tail , the tail is wagging the dog . <| sep |> Those rockers are beautiful <| sep |> The cause of cancer is physical in nature , not spiritual . If we pray for such things , we certainly do that out of our good nature . But do we really want the laws of nature be violated ? Let ' s say we do . Now what ? We would have descended to the level of preChristianity religions . Historically we owe to Christianity all our western values and to some extent our rational thought . God created the world with order , rational order . The great revolution from paganism was that natural phenomena wasn ' t any more caused by impulses and emotions of various gods , but by some unknown plan of a single rational God . Look at our world today . The complexity of it has increased almost unmanageably . But do we because of that believe world is irrational and can be manipulated with prayer ?