The only thing that says “cleric spells for you” anywhere in the text is the domain spells subclass features, stop conflating that with the spellcasting feature. Ritual casting talks about “a cleric spell”, spellcasting in general talks about “your cleric spells” and refers you to the cleric spell list to determine what those are.
This is an argument for another place. I answered the OPs secondary question considering my interpretation of “a cleric spell with the ritual tag” according to what I’ve already said.
I will remind you again that there is a distinction between what spells you can cast as a cleric and what spells are printed on the list of cleric spells, and that is on purpose: when you know/prepare a spell, you can cast that spell with exactly one ability modifier— the modifier that matches the class that you learn the spell through. That is entirely RAW and on purpose. The way it is achieved is through wording that separates the class list from the list of spells any particular PC can cast as a particular class. Once again, it is clear from the rules unless you skip words while reading the rules.
The only thing that says “cleric spells for you” anywhere in the text is the domain spells subclass features, stop conflating that with the spellcasting feature. Ritual casting talks about “a cleric spell”, spellcasting in general talks about “your cleric spells” and refers you to the cleric spell list to determine what those are.
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This is an argument for another place. I answered the OPs secondary question considering my interpretation of “a cleric spell with the ritual tag” according to what I’ve already said.
I will remind you again that there is a distinction between what spells you can cast as a cleric and what spells are printed on the list of cleric spells, and that is on purpose: when you know/prepare a spell, you can cast that spell with exactly one ability modifier— the modifier that matches the class that you learn the spell through. That is entirely RAW and on purpose. The way it is achieved is through wording that separates the class list from the list of spells any particular PC can cast as a particular class. Once again, it is clear from the rules unless you skip words while reading the rules.