Guest 3:34 - You are a bloody ignoramus. Try doing a Google on the history & origins of kung fu & you will quickly find out how uninformed you really are. For the Shaolin to qualify as 'soldier' monks they would have to, as an organization, actively seek out (or at least train with a view to being involved in) conflict which, to the best of my knowledge, they never have.

They are not the European knightly orders (the Templars, Hospitallers, Teutons, etc). They have never fought as a body unless persecuted. Lastly, kung fu, by a very strict definition, is not even a martial art. It's a movement art; like Tai Chi & Aikido; that has self-defense applications. And Buddhism is very explicit about not using violence. If the occasional professed individual breaks that instruction, this is not a reason to claim that the group's philosophy is therefore invalid.