That's right!  It was all about politics as far as Pope Leo X was concerned.  Unfortunately, after the Reformation---there was a very bleak aftermath all over Europe.  The seventeenth century started off with Christians fighting each other to establish their respective beliefs as superior to each other.  It was not only Catholics and Protestants fighting each other, but also Protestants fighting each other as well.  By the time that the eighteenth century began---many educated Europeans didn't want anything to do with Christianity in ANY form.
  

But as you know from history, England eventually captured Spain's supremacy on the seas.  And Henry, "the Defender of the Faith" ran the Church of England just as authoritatively as any pope.