Oblivious to the title and forgetting that you wrote this on my family’s back porch, I finally realized that you were talking about God in the sixth paragraph. Cordelia moment.
The trainwreck/intoxication simile is my favorite line, probably because it’s so true. I’ve never been able to look away from a movie scene with a head on collision.
I also think that you gave it an interesting little twist in the second line, where God states that it was his fault. Well done.

By the way, my new favorite song by Ben Folds is “Not the Same”.

‘Like any good train wreck, it was impossible to look away and the perverse enjoyment was nothing short of intoxicating.’
That is powerful. GREAT story. Love it!