S'mon said:...Monks fit poorly into some Lawful religions - eg Hextor & Heironeus in Greyhawk shouldn't really have Monk-class followers IMO. The Lawful Suel & Bakluni deities certainly should. [/B]
I definitely have to agree with that statement - Monks in an Occidental setting often have a hard time fitting in to an existing religious framework. Which is why they tend to work much better in home brewed worlds.
An example - Monks in our present campaign world come from the schools run by Agnostic Gnomes (as a culture, gnomes in our campaign world do not believe in divine beings, but in perfection of self through a set of ideals - they have no official priesthoods, but do have schools/monastaries that crank out Monks - trained in body and spirit under a very strict set of rules).