Postmodernism and the Filipino Concept of Atheism in the 21 st Century Joemar T. Magante Master of Arts in Teaching Social Sciences De La Salle University- Dasmarinas Introduction Religion serves as the conceptual representation of society. It serves as a basis for morals, values, punishment and consequences that holds the society together. Therefore, religion serves as a social fact that important for social solidarity in Durkheim’s school of thought. Moreover, it has been an influential factor that changed history since it was used by the colonizers to justify their means of acquiring territories. During the 16 th century, Spain was able to discover lands in America and Asia through navigating the unchartered waters of the New World. The Philippines is considered as one of the valuable lands for Spain because it served as an avenue for their attainment of the goals: God, Gold and Glory. The first goal represented a drastic change in the pre-colonial Philippine society from its indigenous beliefs to adapting a concrete religion called Catholicism. Catholicism became the prevalent religion in the Philippines and it is deeply rooted in the society. In 2014, the Philippines boasts it religious affiliation primarily as Catholic (82.9%), Muslim (5%), Iglesia ni Kristo (2.3%), other Christian groups (4.5%) and others (1.8%) including unspecified (0.6%) (Index Mundi 2014). The statistics show that Filipinos are religious in nature but the main focus of the paper is on the rest of the Filipino population that believes in atheism, a movement or belief that started in the Western