My response to your questions posed is that most religions do have the same similar goal in mind. This goal is to become your best self and to help others live better lives. Whether a person is Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or Budhist they share the same goals and a belief in God. I think many other Christian churches besides the LDS faith believe in speaking to God and recieving revelation. I myself who is LDS have definitely thought about other religions other than Christianity and how they too could contain eternal truths, and how I could see myself conforming to their ways of living, so I do not think it so far fetched to believe that someone growing up in one culture with one religion would ever consider joining a "different" kind of one. All in all, I'd like to say, let us focus on what we share that is the same rather than how "peculiar" of a people we are. The danger of getting into "peculiarity" is that it can lead to a way of pride, of the mindset that "we are right" and the "only" ones right and "you are wrong" which is far from the center of Christianity.
