That is prima facie absurd. Those folks in that church presumably bought those books or they were donated by people who bought them. They can be used in any manner .
Burning those books was no different from throwing old comic books in the trash. They are the property of those that bought them to do with as they like.
It is something else when books are confiscated to be destroyed by the government or by one's neighbor, in which other it is Robbery and Arson and Malicious destruction of property, v.v.
Now THAT goes beyond the pale (g)