Rebellion

In my ten plus years as an evangelical and my fifteen years or so as a Calvinist, I have had a lot of discussions and interactions with Protestant thought.  And now, as I have left the Protestant world and become Eastern Orthodox, questions continually come to mind that I hadn't even considered.  A kind of "couldn't see it from the inside" thing.
One thing has come to my observation as of late and that is on the concept of rebellion.  It seems to me that Protestantism is foundationally built upon the practice of rebellion.  Look back over the last several hundred years and consider what has gone on in the Protestant world. Martin Luther rebelled against the authority of the Roman Catholic church, and thus came Lutheranism.  King Henry rebelled against the authority of the Pope and thus was birthed the Anglican church. The Wesley's rebelled against the authority and rules of the Anglican church and created the Methodist church.  Even consider the birth of the US.  The Protestants of England rebelled against the church and founded a country based on individual freedom.
This is not a thought about whether this is right or wrong, but just about the concept itself.  It strikes me as somewhat troubling that an entire religious system is built on rebellion.
Maybe I'll consider this more later.