After I left, I accompanied my ex-Mormon husband to his son's missionary send-off meeting in Provo. In that large room filled with well over 100 people, watching a film about their missionary service and brotherhood, I got that same excited feeling! So if what I experienced as a JW, was the HS on God's chosen JWs, why was I feeling the same thing "in Christendom"?
its funny but a lot of your posts seems like i was writing them. I went to a few Islamic events that were organized through my college and it was incredible the similarities to what I saw and felt as a kid growing up as a JW. The same feelings of veiled superieriority emanating from everyone. The same sexism done lovingly in the auspices of the protection and respect of women. Same exact analogies about why God must exist, and why he must care for us. Same rustling of uneasiness when the speaker before lunch was approaching (and then exceeding) his alotted minutes. Same "proof" of their view of God and the Qu'ran based on scientific evidences that couldn't have been known at the same (but that same book is quickly said to 'not be a scientific textbook' the moment you start to press. The same unquestioned belief in everything being said. It was amazing!
The more people of more religiions I talked to, its amazing how all devout people are exactly the same in so many ways (just change the beliefs a bit). Everyone is 100% sure they are right and they all use the same feelings, proofs and rationalizations to justify their inerrent belief.