Indeed, what we see here is a form of projection - unable to address the impossible and conflicting nature of their doctrines - their only hope is to project onto others what they are 'feeling'. The unpleasantness is avoided and their 'burden' is vicariously placed on another.
I think you have something there. The LDS are trained to hate those who have left, you see it in the bishop’s encouragement to divorce ‘apostate’ spouses, the lies they tell about the ‘antis’, the hatred they have for those who dare to question what they believe. It really is a form of projection and possibly fear. I really think there is a fear, that if someone else found out Mormonism is a lie, then the nagging feeling comes that ‘what if it isn’t true?’ or ‘what if I have been lied to like they say?’.
When you put your faith in your feelings, you run a real risk of finding out your put your faith in a lie, that your feelings have been based upon lies.
The LDS ‘testimony’ is only what they claim they know based upon their feelings (burning in the bosom) but God never tells us that is how we gain knowledge or what personal revelation is. In fact, the Bible tells us we are to STUDY and that faith is the EVIDENCE of things not seen. None of this hocus pocus feeling something is ‘true’.
One of the things I thought was horrible when I was LDS was an ex-mo saying they prayed over a bowl of oatmeal to know if it was ‘true’. The point being you can make anything ‘true’ using LDS standards if you apply their methods. However, once I was on my way out, I prayed to know if what one the ‘antis’ (the bookstore owner friend of mine) were saying was true and I got the same feeling I did when I prayed about the LDS church being ‘true’. That got me to think, how can both be true using the same method when they contradicted each other. I had no choice then but to stop using my feelings and start using my brain and that is when my eyes began to open.