Question about religious dogma

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To those who practice any sort of dogmatic ritual for any organized religion:

- how would you feel if you discovered that the religious text on which you base your ritual had in fact been corrupted, mistranslated, or misunderstood?

You might argue along the lines of "well, forget the text itself... this ritual has been in my faith for <amount of time>! We must be observing it properly!"

... but suppose that this misinterpretation or error had been made by the earliest followers of your faith! Suppose that the simple transposition of two individual characters of an ancient language has now caused your ritual practice to feature a religious official (priest, rabbi, whatever)... when it was intended to be conducted in the presence of an oak tree instead.

A little silly, maybe -- but some of these faiths also include punishments for those who do not follow the proper rituals. Are we therefore to assume that your God would be punishing generations and generations of His religious followers because one of His earliest and most influential disciples simply couldn't read very well?

I therefore pose the following questions:

- how certain are you that 100% of dogmatic rituals you practice are being carried out in their intended form?

- if your answer is less than 100% certain, what do you think are the consequences of this fact?