Not really. Educate yourself about how doctrine actually was decided in the various Protestant state churches, maybe?
And about all the Dissenter folks who didn't feel any obligation to toe the line.
There were people who just started doing their own thing, but that's rather missing the (valid) point here: previously, Church and Monarch had been competing powers, by their nature always warily looking at the other's abitions.
The Reformation, by and large, wrecked that balance. It made the monarchs the heads of national churches. The massive over-centralisation of unchecked power into the hands of the state can be traced to that development. It's a checks-and-balances thing. You don't even have to like the Catholic Church: the simple fact is that, out of its own self-interest, it was utomatically a check on centralised state power.
Breaking the Church was
the factor that ultimately led to the overwhelming predominance of big government in the West.
I think the stories of that sort of thing are over-hyped. People in the 18th Century "Age of Enlightenment" made up all sorts of nonsense about previous eras.
Not quite. The myth that witch-burning was a mediaeval thing came from later times. If anything, those later histories try to obscure the reality: that witch-burning was overwhelmingly (although not entirely!) a Protestant fixation, and a hallmark of the Reformaion period rather than the Mediaeval period.
Meanwhile, Roman Catholic kingdoms whose rulers did not care if you were an Atheist, so long as you were not a Protestant, sowed the seeds of their own destruction.
In the justice of God, those nations that rejected the Reformation got the Revolution instead.
This is missing a shitload of context. While the Counter-Reformation was overall bad and contributed to internal resentment (leading to revolutionary impulses) in Catholic regions, it should obviously be noted that the repressive urge of the Counter-Reformation itself a toxic reaction to a toxic action, i.e. the so-called Reformation. (Which wasn't actually a reformation at all, but a schism...)
What is vital to understand is that the late Mediaeval Catholic Church was Aristotelian in its philosophy. The Reformation was, to a not insignificant degree, a Platonist counter-current. This is in no small part because the Reformation was informed by Renaissance humanism (which was drenched in Platonism) and by the Platonist influx that was carried from the Orthodox migrants who fled the fall of Constantinople and came to Italy. (Easthern Ortohodoxy, having never enjoyed Scholasticism, was always Platonist in its philosophy.)
This had already yielded such things as Savonarola. (If you want an apt comparison: he was the "Extinction Rebellion" type of his day. A fanatical, embittered lunatic who sought to ruin enjoyment of the world for everyone. That typically sour world-view, one must note, also seeped into Protestantism. And infects it to this day.)
The resurgence of Platonism also had political consequences, most of which were manifested in Englightenment thinking. Which of course gave rise to the Age of Revolutions, and thus to modern totalitarianism. Rousseau's "volonté générale" stemmed from that tradition, and by way of his (and his compatriots), it later gave birth to the core ideas of communism and nazism. When Hitler told the Germans "You are nothing, your people is everything!" -- he was referencing Plato by way of Rouseau by way of Hegel. A lineage of bad ideas!
That Platonist resurgence I mentioned, which was the root cause of all this, was carried by the Protestant Reformation. So ultimately, it is correct to say that the so-called Reformation ruined civilisation. I don't think it ruined it forever, but it surely broke the world.
None of this implies that the Church was doing fine. Indeed, had there been an actual reformation (instead of a schism), that would have been good. But that was not the case. The true course of events was far more ruinous. We live in the ruins even now. When you see wokies and commies and all sorts of made radicals with insane ideas typical of our current society-- thank Luther and Calvin for that. They certainly didn't mean to cause that, but that doesn't change that it's an inescapable latter-day result of their actions.