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I was looking over the cleric spellcasting, and realised that clerics know all their spells automatically, and get to prepare the spells from the entire spell list.

Since rituals don't have to be prepared, does that mean a cleric can always cast any ritual spell if they have a the spell levels for it?

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No, your assumption that rituals do not have to be prepared is wrong.

You can cast a cleric spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

You might be thinking of wizards, who don't have to prepare rituals, but that's because their ritual spellcasting explicitly says so:

You can cast a wizard spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell in your spellbook. You don’t need to have the spell prepared.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Wizards are the only class in 5E who can do this. Every other class must Know or Prepare a spell to use it as a ritual. \$\endgroup\$ Jul 5, 2017 at 20:51
  • \$\begingroup\$ Ah, thank you for clearing that up. @guildsbounty \$\endgroup\$
    – Timi
    Jul 5, 2017 at 23:37
  • \$\begingroup\$ Unless they have the Ritual Caster feat, which grants you Ritual spells in a separate book that you can cast as Rituals without preparation. gdnd.wikidot.com/feats#toc36 \$\endgroup\$
    – Zibbobz
    Aug 14, 2019 at 15:10
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    \$\begingroup\$ @guildsbounty that's almost true except for specifically pact of the tome warlocks with the book of ancient secrets invocation. \$\endgroup\$
    – MooseBoost
    Aug 20, 2019 at 13:29
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From the PHB, p.58:

You can cast a cleric spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

So you still need to prepare the spell.

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