Now he charged a fee which was a percent a year which looked an

这些神职人员收取年费
awful lot like interest, but anyway so.

总归看起来和利润差不多糟糕
So the point is all these religions have banished interest

重点是所有这些宗教都禁止获取利润
despite the fact that they themselves were involved in

但是事实上他们也参与了
interest, and lending, and borrowing.

借贷和利益分配的流程
A world can't function really without lending and borrowing

没有借贷和利息的获取
and the charging of interest.

世界就无法运转
So these religions that forbade it at the same time knew that it

其实这些宗教在禁止利息获取的同时
was going on and allowed it to go on and sometimes participated

潜在的允许并在一定程度上
in it.

参与了利润分配的过程
But the point I'm trying to make is that there was vast

我的重点是
confusion, and even today there's

这个领域还是有些矛盾