I once commented on this old article, in a post, but I see that it has been given a new lease of life on the Official WT website
The Odd thing is that they themselves of course are quite happy to take an old church and convert it into a Kingdom Hall. One of my old congos looked hard at one. I have given talks in another ex church, now a Kingdom Hall and see these proud experiences:
* jv chap. 22 p. 474 Part 4—Witnesses to the Most Distant Part of the Earth ***
However, not all religious teachers showed an antagonistic spirit toward Jehovah’s Witnesses. Shem Irofa’alu, in the Solomon Islands, felt a sincere responsibility toward those who looked to him as their religious leader. After reading the Watch Tower Society’s book From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained, he realized that someone had lied to him. He and the religious teachers under his jurisdiction listened to discussions with the Witnesses, asked questions, and looked up the scriptures in the Bible. Then they agreed that they wanted to become Jehovah’s Witnesses, so they proceeded to convert the churches in their 28 villages into Kingdom Halls.
*** yb00 p. 101 Britain **
*In the early 1970’s, one of the congregations in Swansea, Wales, offered to buy an unused chapel for use as a Kingdom Hall.
So how can they slate the Catholic Church for turning an old temple into a church??
Speaking with "forked tongue" again